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On a trip abroad, an asexual director from this country posed for a picture on a large phallic spiny cactus. In a film by Peter Greenaway, that director from this country has an affair with a guide giving him a tour of the Guanajuato Mummies. A director from this country opened a film with a minute-long low-angle (15[1])shot of a cross overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. After a funeral procession emerges from between two burning cars in that film, its director from this country had the camera dolly out a (*) window underneath a flag hoisted by factory workers. In a scene by a director (-5[1])from this country that inspired a Boogie Nights shot, the camera follows a bikini contest participant underwater in a rooftop swimming pool. Charlie Chaplin helped a director from this country meet Upton and Mary Sinclair to make the unfinished epic film ¡Que viva México! For 10 points, Soy Cuba is a film made by a crew from what home country of Sergei Eisenstein? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Soviet Union [or USSR; or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; accept Belarus; prompt on Russia] (The lead-in refers to a picture of Sergei Eisenstein.)
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