Eisenstein In Guanajuato
Competition
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.
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