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Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy

1998 · 99 min

A scholarly, fragmentary collage of archival images that rewards patience and curiosity more than immersion.

Overview
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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    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • art
    • memory
    • identity
    Places
    • countryside
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
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    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance2
    Tension2
    Darkness3
    Complexity7
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Oleg Kovalov, Sergei Eisenstein
    Written by
    Sergei Eisenstein, Oleg Kovalov
    Starring
    Alexandra Scheff, Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein, Martín Hernández, David Liceága, Julio Saldívar, Eduard Tisse, Isabel Villaseñor
    Cinematography
    Yevgeni Shermergor, Eduard Tisse
    Runtime
    99 min
    Country
    Russia
    Languages
    Russian

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