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Que viva Mxico Russian is a film project begun in 1930 by the Russian avantgarde director Sergei Eisenstein 18981948. It would have been an episodic portrayal of Mexican culture and politics from preConquest civilization to the Mexican revolution. Production was beset by difficulties and was eventually abandoned. Jay Leyda and Zina Voynow call it his greatest film plan and his greatest personal tragedy.

Eisenstein shot somewhere between 175,000 and 250,000 linear feet of filmto 50 hours before the Mexican Film Trust stopped production, the Trust having run out of money and patience with Eisensteins unwillingnessinability 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 reenter 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, but after months of failure to find among them anyone interested in the property, finally contracted with independent producerdistributor Sol Lesser to produce two short features and a short subject culled from the footage, Thunder Over Mexico, Eisenstein in Mexico, and Death Day all released in 1934. ........

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