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SERGEI EISENSTEIN. MEXICAN FANTASY

director

Oleg Kovalov

production

Documentary film, 100 min, Russia, 1998

оriginal title  SERGEY EIZENSHTEYN. MEKSIKANSKAYA FANTAZIYA language Russian

synopsis

The version of the unfinished film “Viva Mexico!” by Sergey Eisenshtein, filmed by the cameraman Eduard Tisse in 1930’s during the Eisenshtein's journey to Mexico. To show the development of the Mexican civilization from ancient times of Indians to the dictatorships and revolutions of the beginning of XX century – that was the intention of artisan.