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Film / 2015
Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Directed by
Peter Greenaway
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Elmer BäckSergei Eisenstein
Luis AlbertiPalomino Cañedo
José MontiniDiego Rivera
Cristina Velasco LozanoFrida Kahlo
Rasmus SlätisGrisha Alexandrov
Jakob ÖhrmanEdouard Tisse
Sara JuárezMercedes
Alaín VargasGideon
Maya ZapataConcepción Cañedo
Gustavo GalvánRolando
Emiliano MoralesPascal
Anna KnaifelPera
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Alenka RíosAlba
Lisa OwenMary Craig Sinclair
Stelio SavanteHunter S. Kimbrough
César FonsecaBodyguard 1
Paris SantibánezBodyguard 2
Idalí SotoRespectable Woman
Cristina GilésWhore
Diego GálvezBlackmailer 1
Ricardo ZárragaBlackmailer 2
Alejandro SalmánVisa Official
Irving HernandezCamorrista 1
Humberto GranadosCamorrista 2
Mario RoblesCamorrista 3
Patrik SigmundtCamorrista 4
Esteban CansayaCamorrista 5
María GálvezGraveyard Scene
Silverio PalaciosGraveyard Scene
Mika AinolaEisensteins Fathers Scene
Leo IdmanEisensteins Fathers Scene
Timo JaatinenEisensteins Fathers Scene
Markku JokelainenEisensteins Fathers Scene
Pertti KiiveriEisensteins Fathers Scene
Heikki PeltonenEisensteins Fathers Scene
Raino RantaMeierhold
Harry ViitaEisensteins Fathers Scene
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