¡Qué Viva México!

Name: ¡Qué Viva México!
Released: 1979

Sergei Eisenstein

Soviet Poetic Cinema Mexican history cultural identity modernization national development social progress

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Synopsis

Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.

Year1979

CountryRussia

DirectorSergei Eisenstein

MovementSoviet Poetic Cinema

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I look at stuff like Eisenstein's unfinished Mexican film, which is beautiful and poetic and clearly about a place and people, but not journalism and not storytelling in the conventional sense. So I don't feel like I'm making stuff up. There's a long tradition of people blurring categories. That's what I connect with.