Eisenstein in Guanajuato

– In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein t..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.30 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 45 Minutes
Release Year:
2015
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) - Trailer

Release Date:

18 Jun 2015

Language:

English, Spanish

MPAA Content-Rating:
Unrated

Director:

Peter Greenaway

Writer:

Peter Greenaway

Main Actors:

Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, José Montini, Cristina Velasco Lozano

Plot:

The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein's sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar's Plot.

Awards:

2 wins & 9 nominations.

Gross profit:

$20,852

Production:

Submarine

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
61%
Metacritic:
60%