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The article focuses on the Russian film director Sergei M. Eisenstein's intention to make a film of Marx's 'Das Kapital' according to its dialectical method, rather than its content. Eisenstein tried to find an appropriate method of visual expression with his own montage dialectics. The first part of the article analyzes Eisenstein's intention to make the adaptation, considered in the historical context...