Que Viva Mexico
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Grigori Aleksandrov, Mara Griy, Sergey Bondarchuk Director: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein Brand: Kino International Editor: Grigori Aleksandrov Writer: Grigori Aleksandrov Cinematographer: Eduard Tisse Editor: Sergei M. Eisenstein Writer: Sergei M. Eisenstein Editor: Esfir Tobak Producer: Hunter S. Kimbrough Producer: Kate Crane Gartz Producer: Léonard Rosenthal Producer: Mary Craig Sinclair Producer: Otto Kahn Producer: S. Hillkowitz Producer: Upton Sinclair DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed) Format: Black & White, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Silent, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 85 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-04-03 Audience Rating: Unrated Model: 2022 Studio: Kino Video Product features:
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Movie Reviews of Que Viva Mexico
Movie Review: Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico"
Summary: 5 Stars
In 1930, at the urging of American author Upton Sinclair, and after disagreements with Hollywood, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein traveled to Mexico to film a movie about the country. Fascinated by what they saw, Eisenstein and his associates envisioned a pseudo-documentary/art film which expressed the deep contradictions and gaps between Hispanic and Indigenous Mexico. The film is visually stunning with characteristic Eisensteinian shots and mise-en-scene. Its powerful vision of Mexico would influence artists and filmmakers in Mexico for many decades after its filming, even despite the fact that the film was not edited and produced commercially until the 1970s. However, despite the stunning photography, social commentary, and mildly entertaining music, this film represents the petrification of Mexican cultural identity in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. Fixated by the highly stylized images he produced, Mexican filmmakers and politicians would repeat the discourse his movie presents much to the detriment of indigenous Mexicans. It would be many years until Mexicans would challenge this identity and shake free of the monolithic identity Eisenstein's film inspired. However, regardless of the political ramifications of "Que Viva Mexico", its priceless images and unforgettable style make it a classic of Soviet and Mexican cinema, and as a cultural document of its time provides a compelling vision of how Mexico looked to foreign eyes in the 1930s.