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Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Period & History • Biography, Drama, LGBT, UR

In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet pioneer Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, he arrives in Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he experiences the ties between sex and death, happy to create their effects in cinema, but troubled to suffer them in life.

Tags
Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Mexico
Cast
Elmer Bäck Sergei Eisenstein
Luis Alberti Palomino Cañedo
José Montini Diego Rivera
Crew
Peter Greenaway director

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