Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study (1955)

Eisenstein’s Mexican Film: Episodes for Study

1955

3h 48m

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Overview

"Eisenstein journeyed to Mexico in late 1930 to begin shooting a film. With backing provided by Upton and Mary Craig Sinclair, the great Soviet auteur planned to make an epoch-spanning pageant of Mexico’s political history and cultural iconography, moving from the pre-Columbian era through colonization and, finally, revolution ... with the project running over budget the film was shut down. Sinclair eventually deposited the film materials at MoMA in 1953, at which point the scholar Jay Leyda assembled and annotated the shots, ordering them according to the filmmaker’s plans and presenting the images just as they had been shot, unedited ... here one is given the opportunity to attend to Eisenstein in an entirely different way, and aspects that might otherwise be overshadowed come to the fore: the way he works with nonprofessional actors, for example, or the striking mise-en-scène." - MoMA

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies

Museum of Modern Art Film Library

Production Countries

Mexico United States of America

Spoken Languages

Spanish

Quick Facts

Release Date	January 1, 1955
Status	Released
Language	EN
IMDb ID	tt0206710

Cast

Key Crew

Sergei Eisenstein

Director

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