Eisenstein in Guanajuato
Eisenstein in Guanajuato- Director
- Peter Greenaway
- Country
- Netherlands, Mexico, Belgium, Finland
- Year
- 2015
- Genre
- Biography, Drama
- Scriptwriters
- Peter Greenaway
- Cast
- Elmer Bäck, Stelio Savante, Maya Zapata, Lisa Owen
- Production
- Submarine (The Netherlands), Fu Works (The Netherlands), Paloma Negra Films (Mexico). Coproduced with: Edith Film (Finland), Potemkino (Belgium), Mollywood (Belgium)
Storyline
In 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.
Peter Greenaway’s film explores the mind of a creative genius facing the desires and fears of love, sex and death through ten passionate days that helped shape the rest of the career of one of the greatest masters of Cinema.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Berlin International Film Festival 2015
Official competition
Seville European Film Festival 2015
European Film Academy Selection
Releases
Spain (8 of January 2016)
Call for proposals Development
Media support 171.000,00€
Slate Funding
Call for proposals Sales Agents
Media support 25.000,00€
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia
