Que Viva Mexico | FULL MOVIE | by Sergei Eisenstein

¡Que viva México! is an unfinished movie by Sergei Eisenstein made between 1931 and 1932. The movie was conceived as a broad picture of life in Mexico in different eras and under different social systems. Eisenstein formulated the idea of the movie as follows: ¡Que viva México! is the history of the shifts of culture, given not vertically, in years and centuries, but horizontally, in the order of the geographical cohabitation of the most diverse stages of culture side by side - a unique feature of Mexico where provinces of reigning matriarchy (Tehuantepec) border regions of communism almost achieved in the revolution of the 1910s (Yucatan, Zapatismo, etc.). The making of Long Live Mexico has a fascinating history. In the autumn of 1929, a group of Soviet filmmakers headed by Eisenstein went to Hollywood, where they were supposed to learn the technique of sound cinema and produce a movie for Paramount Pictures. American and Mexican friends, including the famous artists Diego
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