As Mr Bergan movingly recounts, Eisenstein developed a curious mixture of audacity and cunning, always pushing his films towards an ideal state which he must have known could never be realised, for political or economic reasons, yet managing to remain employed and to launch yet another project after the previous one had collapsed or been compromised or sabotaged.

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Never mind that Spain had controlled the region for the previous 150 years or that the harsh terrain and rampant disease doomed the project before its launch.

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