Eisenstein in Guanajuato
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 the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein's sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar's Plot.
- Rated
- Unrated
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Released
- 2015
- Country
- Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Mexico, France
Details
Release year: 2015
Storyline
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 the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein's sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar's Plot.
Top credits
Elmer Bäck — Sergei Eisenstein
Luis Alberti — Palomino Cañedo
Maya Zapata — Concepción Cañedo- Lisa Owen — Mary Craig Sinclair
Did you know
• The starring actor Elmer Bäck is Finnish, his mother tongue is Swedish, his character is Russian and the film is set in a Spanish-speaking country - but the only language he speaks in the film is English.
• In Spain was only released in 7 theaters. Was released in dubbed version (1 theater) / subtitled version (6 theaters).
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $34,282
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $9,823 (2016-02-07)
User reviews
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Technical specs
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- Color
- Color, Black and White
