Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Buster Keaton,Lisa Owen,Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Rejected by Hollywood and facing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino, he experiences the ties between Eros and Thanatos, happy to create their effects in cinema, troubled to suffer them in life.—Anonymous