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Thunder over Mexico, the 1933 Sergei M. Eisenstein U.S./Mexican historical documentary melodrama ("The most talked-of film of the year"; "Eisenstein's Masterpiece"; "The greatest living director makes a great living picture"; "The most beautiful picture ever made!"; "Hauntingly Beautiful - Poignantly Dramatic - Terrifying in its Realism"; produced by Upton Sinclair through the Mexican Film Trust) starring Martin Hernandez, Isabel Villasenor, Felix Balderas, and Julio Saldivar. Eisenstein had originally intended the movie (titled Que Viva Mexico) to be an episodic portrayal (consisting mainly of documentary footage but also including fictional chapters starring actors) of Mexican culture and politics from pre-Conquest civilization to the Mexican revolution. Filming started in 1931 and Eisenstein shot between 175,000 and 250,000 feet of film (30 to 50 hours). However, after the project went over budget and a completed film was nowhere in sight, production was shut down. Eisenstein had hoped to edit his footage in California but he was not allowed back into the United States and at the same time, he was ordered to return to the USSR by Soyuzkino (the state film production organization). All of this meant that Eisenstein was never able to finish his movie. In 1933, the Mexican Film Trust struck a deal with producer/distributor Sol Lesser and he edited the footage into a feature film (along with two short subjects) called Thunder Over Mexico. The footage was also edited by Marie Seton into a 1940 release called Time in the Sun. Finally in 1979, a new "reconstructed" Que Viva Mexico by Grigori Alexandrov (a Soviet director and associate of Eisenstein) was released that attempted to be truer to Eisenstein's original vision. We have separate Descriptions for each of the releases that use Eisenstein's original footage. However, some promotional material does not make it clear which release it is promoting! In those cases, we have entered the records under the original 1931 Que Viva Mexico title.
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Important Added Info: Note that because of the complex release history of this film (please see our Description), we are not certain if this is from a 1950s (likely 1952 or 1953) first release or re-release. Please keep this in mind when bidding. Also, note that we have provided an image of four of the pages of this 8-page program (we did this by opening it and laying it flat and photographing the front and back cover together, and two of the interior pages together). You can see the four of the 8 pages, and can well determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are 4 pages you are not seeing. But of course this means that the front cover appears in the top right of our image, but normally, the program would be folded down the center and you would view the cover by itself (and it will be sent folded as was originally intended).

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