Eisenstein, the great and innovative Russian film director went to Mexico in 1930

to make a film about pre-Columbian peoples.

Whilst in Mexico this super-intellectual polymath, product of a powerful political

turmoil, came face to face with sex and death, life's two non-negotiables, and

subject of man's greatest fascinations. Aged 33, he was obsessed by a museum of

corpses, and a child, victim of a mud-slide, died in his arms. And he fell in

consummated carnal love with a man.

Here is an account of ten days that shook Eisenstein. He returned to Russia a

changed man and a changed film-maker.