¡Que Viva México!
''¡Que viva México!'' may refer to: * ''¡Que viva México!'' (unfinished film), a Soviet film from 1930 directed by Sergei Eisenstein * ''¡Que viva México!'' (2023 film), a Mexican comedy political satire film directed by Luis Estrada {{dab ...
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¡Que Viva México! (unfinished Film)
''¡Que viva México!'' (, ; ) 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". Overview Eisenstein had come to the United States to work on a film for Paramount Pictures, but, after various projects proposed by Charlie Chaplin and Paramount executives fell through, Paramount released him from his contract. Eisenstein would thereupon have been obliged to return to the USSR, but Upton Sinclair and a small group of financiers recruited by him and his wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair intervened on Eisenstein's behalf, inviting him to make a fi ...
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