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Russia’s most influential filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, the man behind classic early films including Battleship Potemkin and October, is the subject of Peter Greenaway’s latest film Eisenstein in Guanajuato.

Focusing upon his time spent in Mexico making the ill-fated, unfinished film ¡Que viva México!, it’s a typically surreal Greenaway film that eschews historical accuracy in favour of reimagining Eisenstein’s sojourn as his homosexual awakening.

Yes, that’s right. The most revered Soviet film director of all time is believed to have been gay – or at least bisexual considering he was married to a woman until his death in 1948 – much to the consternation of his largely still homophobic homeland.

Greenaway doesn’t hold back in this respect, treating viewers to such scenes as his Eisenstein’s anal deflowering at the hands of his pansexual Mexican guide while he expounds the vagaries of Bolshevism. Later, the Mexican guide plants a miniature Soviet flag in Eisenstein’s devirginized behind.

Naturally, this didn’t go down too well in Russia but any film that pisses off homophobes is good in our book.