EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO

By Peter GREENAWAY

POTEMKINO - as PROD

Biography - Completed 2014

After his success in the Soviet Union and disappointments in Hollywood, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to make a film there.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2015
Nominated Golden Berlin Bear
Int'l Film Fest. Of india, Goa 2015
Won Silver Peacock
Nederlands Film Festival 2015
Nominated Golden Calf
Seville European Film Festival 2015
Won Ocaña Award
    • Year of production
    • 2014
    • Genres
    • Biography, Historical, Drama
    • Countries
    • NETHERLANDS, MEXICO, BELGIUM, FINLAND
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 105 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Peter GREENAWAY
    • Synopsis
    • In 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. ChaperoAfter his success in the Soviet Union and disappointments in Hollywood, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to make a film there.ned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he vulnerably experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, sex and death, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life.