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Director
  
Peter Greenaway

Screenplay
  
Peter Greenaway

Writer
  
Peter Greenaway

Language
  
English

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Biography, Comedy, Romance

Duration
  

Country
  
Netherlands Mexico Belgium Finland

Eisenstein in Guanajuato movie poster
Release date
  
11 February 2015 (2015-02-11) (Berlin) 4 September 2015 (2015-09-04) (Finland)

Producers
  
Femke Wolting, Bruno Felix, San Fu Maltha, Cristina Velasco

Cast
  
Elmer Bäck
(Sergei Eisenstein),
Luis Alberti
(Palomino Cañedo),
Rasmus Slätis
(Grisha Alexandrov),
Jakob Öhrman
(Edouard Tisse),
Maya Zapata
(Concepción Cañedo),
Lisa Owen
(Mary Craig Sinclair)

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Venerated filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (Elmer Back) travels to Mexico to shoot his new film after being shunned by Hollywood. There he has a sensual experience that becomes a significant turning point in his life and career.

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Eisenstein in Guanajuato is a 2015 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

Eisenstein in guanajuato official trailer


Cast

  • Elmer Back as Sergei Eisenstein
  • Stelio Savante as Hunter S. Kimbrough
  • Lisa Owen as Mary Craig Sinclair
  • Maya Zapata as Concepcion Canedo
  • Luis Alberti as Palomino Canedo
  • Jakob Ohrman as Eduard Tisse
  • Rasmus Slatis as Grisha Alexandrov
  • Raino Ranta as Meierhold

    • Reception

    Critic and author David Robinson praised Greenaways "...own post-modern pictorialism still as ingenious, flashy and painstakingly wrought in his seventies." He also criticised the film heavily for its salaciousness and many historical inaccuracies, stating that of Eisensteins wife Pera Atasheva and his many friends, confidants and colleagues: "None of these would recognise the Eisenstein they knew in Greenaway’s Guanajuato."

    References

    Eisenstein in Guanajuato Wikipedia
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