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Events on Wednesday 11 February 1948 1
1898 – 1948Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)Died 11 February 1948, aged 50Sergei Eisenstein, the Soviet filmmaker behind "Battleship Potemkin" and pioneer of montage editing, died of a heart attack on February 11, 1948. His theories of film editing shaped cinema worldwide. He had been working on the second part of his Ivan the Terrible trilogy at the time of his death.