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Eisenstein in Guanajuato
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.
Luis Alberti....Palomino Cañedo
José Montini....Diego Rivera
Cristina Velasco Lozano....Frida Kahlo
Rasmus Slätis....Grisha Alexandrov
Jakob Ã-hrman....Eduard Tisse
Sara Juárez....Mercedes
AlaÃn Vargas....Gideon
Maya Zapata....Concepción Cañedo
Gustavo Galván....Rolando
Emiliano Morales....Pascal
Anna Knaifel....Pera
Alenka Rios....Alba (as Alenka Rios Hart)
Lisa Owen....Mary Craig Sinclair
Stelio Savante....Hunter S. Kimbrough
Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database.
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