Abstract
A shooting-script by Sergei Eisenstein, from a treatment by Piotr Pavlenko and Eisenstein, 1, 2 and 3 August 1939. Of the published 657 shot indications, only the first 145 are reproduced below, forming a fourteenth-century prologue to the modern drama of Soviet Uzbekistan’s reclamation of its desert wastes. In the film’s Tamerlane will be found more resemblance to Adolf Hitler than to the heroic figure of Marlowe’s tragedy.