The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein's sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar's Plot.
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Elmer Bäck | Sergei Eisenstein |
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Luis Alberti | Palomino Cañedo |
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José Montini | Diego Rivera |
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Cristina Velasco Lozano | Frida Kahlo |
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Rasmus Slätis | Grisha Alexandrov |
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Jakob Öhrman | Eduard Tisse |
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Sara Juárez | Mercedes |
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Alaín Vargas | Gideon |
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Maya Zapata | Concepción Cañedo |
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Gustavo Galván | Rolando |
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Emiliano Morales | Pascal |
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Anna Knaifel | Pera |
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Alenka Rios | Alba |
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Lisa Owen | Mary Craig Sinclair |
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Stelio Savante | Hunter S. Kimbrough |
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César Fonseca | Bodyguard 1 |
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Paris Santibánez | Bodyguard 2 |
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Idalí Soto | Respectable Woman |
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Cristina Gilés | Whore |
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Diego Gálvez | Blackmailer 1 |
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Ricardo Zárraga | Blackmailer 2 |
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Alejandro Salmán | Visa Official |
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Irving Hernandez | Camorrista 1 |
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Humberto Granados | Camorrista 2 |
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Mario Robles | Camorrista 3 |
| Director | Peter Greenaway |
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| Writer | Peter Greenaway | |
| Producer | Karin S. de Boer, Peter De Maegd, Bruno Felix, San Fu Maltha, Simon Ofenloch, Liisa Penttilä, Carlos Sosa, Alejandro Sánchez de la Peña, Cristina Velasco, Femke Wolting | |
| Photography | Carlos Salom, Reinier van Brummelen | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Layers | Single side, Single layer |