She was most famous for her only film role as the mother with the baby carriage in the Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkin and as the first permanent Soviet ambassador in Italy.

In 1925 in the Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkin, she played the role that made her famous in the Soviet Union.

The ballet score is an arranged version of some of the music Prokofiev actually wrote for the Eisenstein film; its programmatic quality is sometimes at odds with the dance rhythms onstage.

Its name is a reference to the Eisenstein film that set the tone of intellectual, politically engaged writing that has been the hallmark of the journal.

Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky," the blockbuster on the program, was the score for the 1938 Eisenstein film and vividly depicts the battles of the film's hero.

He also had a part in another Eisenstein film, Strike.

There are a handful of the Popes that the artist created by combining elements of Velazquez's portrait of Innocent X with the image of a screaming nurse from "The Battleship Potemkin," the Sergei Eisenstein film.

The characters are photographed iconically, as in an Eisenstein film: the spiritually crippled black dad with his modest Afro against the weather-beaten relic of a Coney Island ride, for example.

And Mr. Rybczynski loses no opportunity to make use of small filmic bits of business in the Eisenstein film.

First, on Oct. 25, he conducts the Boston Symphony in Prokofiev's score to "Alexander Nevsky" in conjunction with a screening of the 1938 Eisenstein film in Avery Fisher Hall.