Eisenstein In Guanajuato — U.S. Trailer

added: Wed, Jan 13th '16

Acclaimed British arthouse filmmaker Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover) writes and directs "Eisenstein In Guanajuato," a 1930s-set biographical drama that chronicles legendary Soviet Russian director Sergei Eisenstein's ten-day stay in Mexico, which resulted in a troubled film shoot, yet contributed to the director's creative and spiritual rebirth.

Finnish actor Elmer Back portrays Eisenstein, who is perhaps best known for directing the 1925 silent-film masterpiece "Battleship Potemkin." Eisenstein was also the filmmaker behind the classic Russian historical films "Alexander Nevsky," "Ivan the Terrible" and "October: Ten Days That Shook the World."

Premiering to mostly positive reviews at last year's Berlin Film Festival, "Eisenstein In Guanajuato" is getting a stateside release next month, opening in select theaters on February 5th. Watch the film's U.S. trailer, above.

synopsis:
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 Canedo, 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.

directed by Peter Greenaway

starring Elmer Back, Luis Alberti, Maya Zapata

release date February 5, 2016