The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few – if any – directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisenstein’s sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career – a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyar’s Plot.

—Peter Greenaway

DirectorPeter GreenawayProd. CoSubmarine, Fu WorksYear2014AwardsNominee Golden Berlin Bear, Berlin International Film Festival 2015
Nominee Teddy Best Feature Film Teddy Ballot Volkswagen Audience Award
Nominee Chlotrudis Award Best Editing, Chlotrudis Awards 2017
Nominee Chlotrudis Award Best Use of Music in a Film, Chlotrudis Awards 2017
Nominee Grand Jury Prize Feature Film Competition, Czech Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2015
Winner Silver Peacock Best Director, Nominee Golden Peacock Best Film, International Film Festival of India 2015
Nominee Golden Calf Best Director of a Feature Film, Nederlands Film Festival 2015
Nominee Golden Space Needle Award Best Director, Seattle International Film Festival 2015
Winner Ocaña Award, Seville European Film Festival 2015Servicesediting