¡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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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