Eisenstein in Guanajuato(2015)

Name: Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Director: Peter Greenaway
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: Jun 18, 2015
Cast: José Montini

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1h 45m

Release Date: Jun 18, 2015

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 ... Read all

Release Details

2015 Re-release | Feb 5, 2016 | Limited

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Box Office Results

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$9,823
Total US & Canada:
$34,282
Total International
$57,634
Total Worldwide:
$91,916

Current Showtimes

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Director & Top Cast

Peter Greenaway
Director

José Montini
Diego Rivera

Technical Specifications

Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Mexico, France

Language: English,Spanish

Summaries

Storyline

— Peter Greenaway Rejected by Hollywood and facing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino, he experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life. — Anonymous n 1931, at the height of his artistic powers, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, he vulnerably experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, sex and death, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life.