Contrasting the early and late films by Sergej Eisenstein as opposite groups of work is very common. Naum Kleiman (Moscow), however, considers those films not as two contrary poles, but rather as consecutive stages in Eisenstein’s poetics of cinema. In his lecture “Vom ‚Intellektuellen Film‘ in OKTOBER zur Ikonographie in IWAN DER SCHRECKLICHE”, Kleiman elaborates on those lines of development. He will discuss how Eisenstein’s idea of the Intellectual Film develops in the direction of an Ideography, finally arriving at an Iconography of film.