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Mark Twain, the renowned American writer of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," was the subject of Sergei Eisenstein's ambitious cinematic project. Eisenstein, a groundbreaking Soviet filmmaker, envisioned a film adaptation of Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," aiming to capture the essence of the American writer's work on the big screen.