Film directors of two silent era movements, German Expressionism, with its distorted sets, shadows and heightened emotion, and Soviet montage, which built meaning by the cutting together of shots. A director belongs here when the cited article names Expressionism or montage in connection with the person. It excludes directors of the postwar New Wave and New Hollywood, who sit in their own group, and directors of the sound studio era.
Expressionist and Soviet Montage Directors
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F. W. Murnau (Wikipedia)
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a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema
Wikipedia: Fritz Lang
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One of the best-known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute.
Wikipedia: Sergei Eisenstein
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Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.
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