Eisenstein's Mexican Film : Episodes for Study (1958)

In 1930, with financing collected by Mr. and Mrs. Upton Sinclair, and with the help of Mexican advisors, a group of three Russians – Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Alexandrov, and Eduard Tisse – began an ambitious film in Mexico. A year later the backers halted the project before filming was complete. Since then parts of the filmed footage have been released, but not in the form intended by its makers.

The aim of this present film is purely instructional: to summarize Eisenstein’s film plan. And to restore a few fragmentary sequences from the unfinished QUE VIVA MEXICO as they came from Tisse’s camera, without attempting to convey the final form that this footage would have taken.

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