
In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.

as Sergei Eisenstein

as Palomino Cañedo

as Diego Rivera

as Frida Kahlo

as Grisha Alexandrov

as Edouard Tisse

as Mercedes

as Gideon

as Concepción Cañedo

as Rolando

as Pascal

as Pera

as Alba

as Mary Craig Sinclair

as Hunter S. Kimbrough

as Bodyguard 1

as Bodyguard 2

as Respectable Woman

as Whore

as Blackmailer 1

as Blackmailer 2

as Visa Official

as Camorrista 1

as Camorrista 2

as Camorrista 3

as Camorrista 4

as Camorrista 5

as Graveyard Scene

as Graveyard Scene

as Eisensteins Fathers Scene

as Eisensteins Fathers Scene

as Eisensteins Fathers Scene

as Eisensteins Fathers Scene

as Eisensteins Fathers Scene

as Eisensteins Fathers Scene

as Meierhold

as Eisensteins Fathers Scene