Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2015 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
Finland ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
France ( France, Benelux )
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Peter Greenaway

Written By:
Peter Greenaway

Actors:
Elmer Bäck ..... Sergei Eisenstein
Luis Alberti ..... Palomino Cañedo
José Montini ..... Diego Rivera
Cristina Velasco Lozano ..... Frida Kahlo
Rasmus Slätis ..... Grisha Alexandrov
Jakob Öhrman ..... Eduard Tisse
Sara Juárez ..... Mercedes
Alaín Vargas ..... Gideon
Maya Zapata ..... Concepción Cañedo
Gustavo Galván ..... Rolando
Emiliano Morales ..... Pascal
Anna Knaifel ..... Pera
Alenka Rios ..... Alba
Lisa Owen ..... Mary Craig Sinclair
Stelio Savante ..... Hunter S. Kimbrough

Synopsis:

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.

Rejected by Hollywood and facing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino, he experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 February, 2017.