Sergey EISENSTEIN
Сергей ЭЙЗЕНШТЕЙН
Sergueï EISENSTEIN
USSR, 1931, 85mn 
Black and white, silent, documentary
Da zdrasvuet meksika
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Да здравствует Мексика

 

 Que Viva Mexico!

 Que viva Mexico !

 
Directed by : Sergey EISENSTEIN (Сергей ЭЙЗЕНШТЕЙН)
Writing credits : Sergey EISENSTEIN (Сергей ЭЙЗЕНШТЕЙН)
Cinematography : Eduard TISSE (Эдуард ТИССЭ)
Companies : Upton Sinclair
Release Date in Russia : 1979
 
Sites : Page Allociné, page IMDb
VOD or DVD release in France : 2003-01-02, Site

Awards :
Prize of Honour Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1979

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Bach Films
Editor : Films sans frontières

Plot synopsis
A film document of the history of Mexico, presented in four novellas: Sandunga, an exposition of Tehuantepec jungles and the peaceful lifestyles of their inhabitants; Manguei, a love story about a poor peon and his bride; Fiesta, devoted to bullfighting and romantic love; and Soldadera, a portrayal of the 1910 revolution in Mexico as depicted in the frescoes of Siqueiros, Rivera, and Orosco. Previously issued in less complete version under title: Thunder over Mexico. Reconstructed by Grigori Aleksandrov in 1979 from materials directed by Sergei Einstein in 1931.
Source : www.lib.berkeley.edu/
 

commentaries
La fascinante vision du Mexique par le réalisateur russe Sergueï Eisenstein projetée à Paris, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Eisenstein as Ethnographer: Revisiting Imagery in Que Viva Mexico!, John HODGKINS, Kinokultura, 2018
Histoire et sacré dans le cinéma soviétique – le cas Eisenstein, Catherine GERY, Presses de l'Inalco, 2016
In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico, Masha SALAZKINA, University of Chicago Press,, 2009
Knowing Icons and Transforming Experience: Sergei Eisenstein’s ¡Que Viva México! (1932), Gabrielle MURRAY, sensesofcinema.com/, 2009
Que Viva Mexico! Ethno-Exploitation and Thunder Over Mexico by Chris Meir, Chris MEIR, synoptique.ca, 2005
Que viva mexico, site kinoglaz.fr, kinoglaz.fr, 2004
LES ÉCRITS MEXICAINS DE S.M EISENSTEIN, Steven BERNAS, Sergey EISENSTEIN, Editions L'Harmattan, 2001
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Pessac International History Film Festival, Pessac (France), 2019
- Rétrospective Eisenstein au Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (France), 2019
- Cycle Eisenstein à la cinématique de Toulouse, Toulouse (France), 2018
- Festival of Russian cinema in Nice, Nice (France), 2017
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 2016
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Rétrospective Eisenstein à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2010
- Month of the documentary in France, Different cities (France), 2010
- VOD or DVD release in France of the film:, Different cities (France), 2003
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1979

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