Eisenstein In Guanajuato

Berlin 2015
Competition
Hong Kong International
Film Festival 2015
Seville European Film Festival 2015
Ocaña Award

Eisenstein In Guanajuato

A Film by Peter Greenaway

2015 - Netherlands/Mexico - Drama - DCP - 2.35 - 105 min.

with Elmer Bäck & Luis Alberti

Language: English
Produced by Bruno Felix , Femke Wolting , San Fu Maltha & Cristina Velasco L.

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.

Berlin 2015
Competition
Hong Kong International
Film Festival 2015
Seville European Film Festival 2015
Ocaña Award

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