Eisenstein in Guanajuato (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 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.

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Summary Details
Earliest Release DateAugust 7, 2015 (Lithuania)
Running Time1 hr 45 min
GenresBiography Comedy Drama Romance
FilmmakersRole
Peter Greenaway Director
Peter Greenaway Writer
Bruno Felix Producer
San Fu Maltha Producer
Cristina Velasco Producer
Femke Wolting Producer
Carlos Salom Cinematographer
Reinier van Brummelen Cinematographer
Elmer Leupen Editor
Ana Solares Production Designer
CastRole
Elmer Bäck
Sergei Eisenstein
Luis Alberti
Palomino Cañedo
Maya Zapata
Concepción Cañedo
Lisa Owen
Mary Craig Sinclair