Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

2015•1h 45m•6.1/10

ComedyRomance

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.1/10(87)

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

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Production

ZDF/Arte, Fu Works, Submarine, Paloma Negra Films, Edith Film, Potemkino, Mollywood, YLE, VPRO

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Elmer Bäck

Elmer Bäck

Sergei Eisenstein

Luis Alberti

Luis Alberti

Palomino Cañedo

José Montini

Diego Rivera

Cristina Velasco Lozano

Frida Kahlo

Rasmus Slätis

Grisha Alexandrov

Jakob Öhrman

Jakob Öhrman

Edouard Tisse

Sara Juárez

Mercedes

Alaín Vargas

Gideon

Maya Zapata

Maya Zapata

Concepción Cañedo

Gustavo Galván

Rolando

Emiliano Morales

Pascal

Anna Knaifel

Pera

Alenka Ríos

Alenka Ríos

Alba

Lisa Owen

Lisa Owen

Mary Craig Sinclair

Stelio Savante

Stelio Savante

Hunter S. Kimbrough

César Fonseca

Bodyguard 1

Paris Santibánez

Bodyguard 2

Idalí Soto

Respectable Woman

Cristina Gilés

Whore

Diego Gálvez

Blackmailer 1

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