¡Que viva México! (1932)

Not Rated103 minDirector: Sergei Eisenstein

1979 Soviet film

¡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".

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What is ¡Que viva México! about?
¡Que viva México! (1932) — Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated west in hopes of testing the capabilities of the American film industry.
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