¡Que Viva Mexico! (1932) on Netflix
Soviet filmmakers shoot more than two hundred thousand feet of footage across Mexico for a planned six-part portrait of the country, from pre-Conquest civilization to the revolution.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about ¡Que Viva Mexico! (1932)
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- Eisenstein shot somewhere between 175,000 and 250,000 linear feet of film, about 30 to 50 hours, before the Mexican Film Trust stopped production, having run out of money and patience with his inability to finish the film expeditiously.
- Eisenstein intended to edit the Mexican footage in California, but the Department of Immigration would not let him re-enter the United States, and no agreement with Soyuzkino was ever reached to send the footage to the USSR for him to finish there.
- Before allowing Eisenstein and his two compatriots into Mexico, the Mexican government required that the film show nothing critical of post-Revolution Mexico, and in 1931 it censored the filming through an on-site censor.
- Eisenstein's friend Marie Seton tried to rescue the footage and send it to him in 1939 but could not because of the Second World War; when Eisenstein saw her edited version in 1946, he called it "castrated by dirty hands".
