Time in the Sun
6.1
Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein shot during 1931-32 in Mexico for American socialist author Upton Sinclair, his wife and a small company of investors. The projected film, to be called "Que Viva Mexico", was never completed due to exhaustion of funds and Stalin's demand that Eisenstein return to the USSR (he had been absent since 1929). The first attempt at editing the footage, in the USA, resulted in "Thunder Over Mexico", released in 1934. In 1940, Marie Seton, from the UK, acquired some of the footage from the Sinclairs in an attempt to make a better cutting according to Eisenstein's skeletal outline for the proposed film. This film has apparently been lost.
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Cast
22 people
Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Ponce Espino
Narrator
Franz Blom
Kate Crane Gartz
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Charles Frederick Lindsley
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Anita Brenner
Sergei Eisenstein
S Hillkowitz
William Royle
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Paul Burnford
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Otto Kahn
Sergei Eisenstein Director · Grigori Aleksandrov Director Paul Burnford Writer
United States release September 30, 1940 · Produced in United States
Production
The Mexican Picture Trust
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 30, 1940
Theatrical
Hungary
March 24, 1955
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