¡Que viva México!

19321h 43mGrigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
¡Que viva México!

La Cinémathèque Française

51 Rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris

Cycle: Carte blanche à Naoum Kleiman / Les films

Saturday, March 14

¡Que viva México! ([ke ˈβi.βa ˈme.xi.ko], "Long Live Mexico!"; Russian: Да здравствует Мексика!, romanized: Da zdravstvuyet Meksika!) is a film project begun in 1930 by the Russian avant-garde director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948) under contract to socialist author Upton Sinclair and other supporters in the United States. It would have been an episodic portrayal of Mexican culture and politics from pre-Conquest civilization to the Mexican Revolution. Production was beset by difficulties and was eventually abandoned. Jay Leyda and Zina Voynow call it Eisentein's "greatest film plan and his greatest personal tragedy".

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Release Date

January 1, 1932

Languages

Russian

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