Completed - ENGLISH - Biography, Historical, Drama - 105 minutes
After his success in the Soviet Union and disappointments in Hollywood, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to make a film there.
Year of production : 2014 Director(s) : Peter GREENAWAY Cast : Elmer BACK, Luis ALBERTI, Maya ZAPATA, Rasmus SLÄTIS, Jakob ÖHRMAN, Lisa OWEN, Stelio SAVANTE
In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. ChaperoAfter his success in the Soviet Union and disappointments in Hollywood, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to make a film there.ned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he vulnerably experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, sex and death, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life.
Country(ies) : NETHERLANDS, MEXICO, BELGIUM, FINLAND
Berlinale - EFM 2015 (Nominated Golden Berlin Bear)Int'l Film Fest. Of india, Goa 2015 (Won Silver Peacock)Seville European Film Festival 2015 (Won Ocaña Award)Nederlands Film Festival 2015 (Nominated Golden Calf)