1998
6.8 (4 votes)
1h 39m
Genres
Documentary
Production Companies
Gosfilmfond Russia
Gosfilmofond
CTB Film Company
Gosfilmofond
CTB Film Company
Sergei Eisenstein: Mexican Fantasy (Сергей Эйзенштейн. Мексиканская фантазия)
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.
Key Crew
Director: Sergei Eisenstein, Oleg Kovalov
Producer: Sergei Selyanov, Upton Sinclair
Writer: Sergei Eisenstein, Oleg Kovalov
Director of Photography: Eduard Tisse, Yevgeni Shermergor
Top Cast
Alexandra Scheff
Narrator
Grigori Aleksandrov
Himself
Sergei Eisenstein
Himself
Martín Hernández
Sebastian
David Liceága
Matador
Julio Saldívar
Hacienda Owner
Eduard Tisse
Himself
Isabel Villaseñor
Maria
