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Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy

Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy

1998•1h 39m•6.8/10
Documentary

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6.8/10(4)

Eisenstein shot 50 hours of footage on location in Mexico in 1931 and 32 for what would have become ¡Que viva México!, but was not able to finish the film. Following two wildly different reconstruction attempts in 1939 (Marie Seton's 'Time in the Sun') and 1979 (Grigori Alexandrov's '¡Que viva México!') Kovalov has here compiled another hypothetical version of what Eisenstein's film might have been.

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Production

Gosfilmfond Russia, Gosfilmofond, CTB Film Company

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Alexandra Scheff

Narrator

Grigori Aleksandrov

Grigori Aleksandrov

Himself

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

Himself

Martín Hernández

Sebastian

David Liceága

Matador

Julio Saldívar

Hacienda Owner

Eduard Tisse

Eduard Tisse

Himself

Isabel Villaseñor

Maria

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