1979 Que Viva Mexico Movie Poster EISENSTEIN ORIGINAL RARE

Description: 1979 Original vintage poster for Que Viva Mexico when it was re-released in 1979. Documentary about Mexico made by the Great Sergei Eisenstein. Selling as is, sorry no refunds. Will ship in tube to US address. From Wikipedia "Eisenstein left for Mexico in December 1930—after various projects proposed by Charles Chaplin and Paramount Pictures fell through, and Paramount released him from his contract. The Mexican film was produced by Upton Sinclair and a small group of financiers recruited by his wife Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, under a legal corporation these investors formed, the Mexican Film Trust. Their contract with Eisenstein called for a short, apolitical feature film about or involving Mexico, in a scenario to be designed and filmed by Eisenstein and his two compatriots, Grigori Alexandrov and Eduard Tisse. Other provisos of the contract, which Eisenstein signed on 24 November 1930, included that the film would be completed (including all post-production work) by April 1931, and would show or imply nothing that could be construed as insulting to or critical of post-Revolution Mexico (a condition imposed by the Mexican government before it would allow the three Soviets entry into their country). Filmed material was also to be subject to censorship by the Mexican government, at first after it was filmed and printed, later in 1931 during shooting via an on-site censor.Eisenstein shot somewhere between 175,000 and 250,000 linear feet of film (30 to 50 hours) before the Mexican Film Trust stopped production, the Trust having run out of money and patience with Eisenstein's unwillingness/inability to complete the film expeditiously, and Eisenstein having received orders for his "speediest return" to the USSR from Soyuzkino, from which he had been absent since 1929. Although the original intent was for Eisenstein to proceed from Mexico to California and edit the film he had taken, he was not allowed to re-enter the United States by the Department of Immigration, nor later could any agreement be reached by the Trust with Soyuzkino which would have allowed the footage be sent to the USSR for completion by him there.Through Sinclair, the Mexican Film Trust attempted to arouse interest from a major American motion picture concern to finish the film. After months of failure to find any such interested in the property, the Trust finally contracted with independent producer-distributor Sol Lesser to produce two short features and a short subject culled from the footage, Thunder Over Mexico, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day; these were all released in 1934.[2]Later, others, with the Trust's permission, attempted different versions, such as Marie Seton's Time in the Sun (1939). The title ¡Qué viva México!, originally proposed by Eisenstein in correspondence with Upton Sinclair during the last months of shooting, was first used for a version made by Grigori Alexandrov,[3] which was co-edited by Alexandrov and Esfir Tobak [4] and released in 1979, about a decade after the footage was sent to the USSR by the Museum of Modern Art in exchange for several Soviet films from the Gosfilmofond film archive. The film was awarded with the Honorable Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival in 1979." The poster was issued to export to Western market with the mention of winning the award in 1979.

Price: 500 USD

Location: Laguna Hills, California

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Shipping Cost: 25 USD