Hurray Mexico (1932)

Unedited film that Sergei Eisenstein Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Eduard Tisse shot in Mexico 193132 This record only represents the 200000plus feet of unedited film that Sergei Eisenstein Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Eduard Tisse shot in Mexico 193132 for Mary and Upton Sinclair and three American cofinanciers It was Eisensteins vision to end up with movie about Mexico in six parts called Calavera Sandunga Maguey Fiesta Soldadera and Epilogue The project was canceled before it was completed due to cost overruns and monthsdelayed completion and the producers refused to let Eisenstein attempt to edit anything from the material he had finished after Iosif Stalin called him back to the USSR From this footage the following pictures were subsequently edited by other hands Thunder Over Mexico 1933 Eisenstein in Mexico 1933 Death Day 1934 Time in the Sun 1940 and Que Viva Mexico 1979