¡Que viva México! (1932)

Original title

¡Que Viva Mexico!

Directed by

Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein

Genre

drama film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film project was meant to show Mexican culture and politics over centuries starting from before the Spanish conquest through the revolution. Production stopped early and nobody finished the film.

episodicunfinishedambitioushistoricaldocumentary-likepolitically chargedvisually strikingmelancholic

What happens

¡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". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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