RUSSIA · 1934
Death Day
Soviet Poetic Cinema
mexican culture
day of the dead
documentary filmmaking
lost footage
cultural celebration
Synopsis
During his adventure in Mexico, Sergei Eisenstein made footage of a Mexican "Death Day" celebration for inclusion in his "Que Viva Mexico!" film project. When the 200,000-plus feet of film he eventually exposed in Mexico was first attempted to be made into a feature film, "Thunder Over Mexico", the producers excluded the Death Day material for subsequent compilation as an independent short subjec
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