Eisenstein in Guanajuato

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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  Elmer Bäck

  Sergei Eisenstein
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  Luis Alberti

  Palomino Cañedo
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  Jakob Öhrman

  Edouard Tisse
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  Maya Zapata

  Concepción Cañedo
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  Alenka Ríos

  Alba
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  Lisa Owen

  Mary Craig Sinclair
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  Stelio Savante

  Hunter S. Kimbrough
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  Silverio Palacios

  Graveyard Scene