Hurray Mexico!
1932 · 88 MIN · DIR. Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Overview
Unedited film that Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Eduard Tisse shot in Mexico 1931-32. This record only represents the 200,000-plus feet of unedited film that Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov and Eduard Tisse shot in Mexico 1931/32 for Mary and Upton Sinclair and three American co-financiers. It was Eisenstein's 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 months-delayed 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).
Dialogue Timeline — 281 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:24 A Mosfilm Production
00:01:44 He, and we along with him...
00:02:34 We spent two months filming.
00:03:24 could be told without actors or sets.
00:04:09 They were turned over to us
00:04:48 we have tried...
00:05:56 The text is by Eisenstein. It is read by Pino Locchi.
00:07:24 of the Mexicans of old.
00:11:21 The Sandunga
00:14:26 Concepcion needs one more gold coin - just one -
00:20:09 takes part in the event.
00:26:21 Cortes conquered Mexico
00:27:57 and, with these tied on their shoulders...
00:32:01 Then the gory finale, the bullfight.
00:37:29 The razor's edge...
00:45:41 during the reign of dictator Porfirio Diaz.
00:48:13 Sebastian, a peon, is at work in the fields.
00:57:35 Three of his comrades and Felicio, his brother-
01:17:02 and then united by the victory of the revolution.
01:17:55 Epilogue
01:20:31 Chocolate coffins
01:22:01 Not sham skulls now but real ones.
01:23:25 Yuri Yakushev
01:24:22 The End