Eisenstein in Guanajuato(2015)

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1h 45m

Release Date: Jun 18, 2015

The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around ... Read all

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2015 Re-release | Feb 5, 2016

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Director & Top Cast

Peter Greenaway
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José Montini
Diego Rivera

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

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Country of Origin: Netherlands,Belgium,Finland,Mexico,France

Language: English,Spanish

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— Peter Greenaway Rejected by Hollywood and facing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino, he experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life. — Anonymous n 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. Chaperoned 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.