Historias paralelas

Broadside from new governor José Antonio Mozo discussing reconquering the Department of Texas, with the cooperation and unification of the inhabitants of the Mexican Republic.

An order from the King, directed to all government officials in New Spain, Peru, and New Granada, which demands that each official work towards the promotion of the cultivation of tobacco in their respective territory.

This work contains fresh information located at the Sergei Eisenstein Museum and in his personal archive, both located in Moscow, which clearly indicates that there is still more to say about the Soviet director's unfinished movie, financed by Upton Sinclair. The discovery of the first version of the screenplay as well as books on Mexico and bullfight programs enables the manner in which the film developed and was structured through short stories to be reconsidered.