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Time in the Sun
RUSSIA · 1940

Time in the Sun

Sergei Eisenstein
Mexican culture unfinished film Soviet cinema documentary footage political exile
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Synopsis

Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein shot during 1931-32 in Mexico for American socialist author Upton Sinclair, his wife and a small company of investors. The projected film, to be called "Que Viva Mexico", was never completed due to exhaustion of funds and Stalin's demand that Eisenstein return to the USSR (he had

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