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Eisenstein in Mexico
RUSSIA · 1933

Eisenstein in Mexico

Sergei Eisenstein
filmmaking artistic ambition cultural collision unfinished projects Soviet cinema
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Synopsis

The story of Russian director Sergei M. Eisenstein in Mexico trying to film his unfinished ¡Que Viva Mexico! - Da zdravstvuyet Meksika! (1979).

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