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Thunder Over Mexico

Thunder Over Mexico

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 22, 1933

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Drama, Documentary

User Score

50%

Original Title

Thunder Over Mexico

Production Companies

The Mexican Picture Trust

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Description

As was common in Diaz's Mexico, a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl. This film is the first of several attempts to make a feature-length motion picture out of the 200,000-plus feet of film shot by Sergei Eisenstein, on photographic expedition in Mexico during 1931-32 for Upton Sinclair and a cadre of private American producer-investors. Silent with music and English intertitles.