Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy

1h 39m
Documentary
6.8

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.

Cast

Alexandra Scheff
Narrator
Grigori Aleksandrov
Himself
Sergei Eisenstein
Himself
Martín Hernández
Sebastian
David Liceága
Matador
Julio Saldívar
Hacienda Owner
Eduard Tisse
Himself
Isabel Villaseñor
Maria

Crew

Sergei Eisenstein
Director, Writer
Oleg Kovalov
Director, Writer, Editor
Eduard Tisse
Director of Photography
Yevgeni Shermergor
Director of Photography
Vladimir Khaunin
Executive Producer
Sergei Selyanov
Producer
Upton Sinclair
Producer
Vladimir Persov
Sound Director
Marina Polyanskaya
Sound Director
Vyacheslav Gajvoronsky
Music

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