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EISENSTEIN SERGEI (1898-1948) Soviet film director & film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. A rare vintage signed 6.5 x 4.5 photograph of Eisenstein in a smiling head and shoulders pose wearing a large knitted sweater and with his hands clasped before him. Signed ('S. Eisenstein') in bold red fountain pen ink to the verso, with a quotation, in French, in his hand, 'Rions!....Pource que rire est le propre de l'homme….meme de l'homme malpropre' (Translation: 'Let's laugh!....Why laughter is the characteristic of man…..even of the unclean man'). Dated 14th November 1927 in his hand. The verso also bears various ink and pencil annotations in an unidentified hand, largely notes and directions for the publication of the photograph. Some light overall age wear and minor surface creasing, G