Grisha Alexandrov
Greenaway lleva a la pantalla grande parte de la vida de Sergei Eisenstein, concretamente el periodo en el que el mítico realizador soviético vivió en México y rodó, entre otros films, "¡Que viva México!". El director de “El Acorazado Potemkin” (1925) pasó más de un año, a partir de diciembre de 1930, en tierras aztecas para filmar su fascinación por el Día de Muertos y los ritos religiosos de la cultura popular mexicana. Sin embargo, la cinta quedó inconclusa, por lo que en 1979 Grigori Aleksandrov, a partir de los “storyboards” originales de Eisenstein, compiló “¡Que Viva México!, una aproximación al montaje que éste planeaba.
Chride
A story about an evening in a restaurant. Six tables, seven stories, a tragicomedy about the fantasies and realities of love.
Grisha Alexandrov
From Moscow to Mexico City, Eisenstein was privileged enough to met the cultural heroes of the era and embrace them as compatriots, with a handshake. Such was his reputation as the wunderkind of the new art of cinema, everybody wanted to meet him; there were writers, painters, critics, theorists and philosophers, as well as composers, architects, and artists from all branches of the cultural life that was shaping minds and civilizations. Our project would follow Eisenstein's journey and note the significant characters he encountered on his travels, with a focus on Switzerland.
