
¡Qué Viva México!
Oct 01 1979
•1h 25m
•Documentary, Drama, Western
Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
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Sergey Bondarchuk
Narrator (voice)

Grigori Aleksandrov
Self
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