Eisenstein in Guanajuato
(DVD)

Widescreen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.

Bonus features: Interview with actors Elmer Bäck & Luis Alberti ; original theatrical trailer.

Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.

Director of photography, Reinier van Brummelen ; editor, Elmer Leupen ; costume design, Brenda Gómez.

Elmer Bäck (Sergei Eisenstein), Luis Alberti (Palomino Cañedo), Maya Zapata (Concepción Cañedo).

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.

Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film about the ties between sex and death.

DVD format; NTSC; region 1; 16:9 presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

In English with optional English subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH).