Cinema
Amalia
Enrique García Velloso · 1914
Synopsis
The film adapts the novel of 1851, set in Buenos Aires under Rosas, according to the programme of the Bogotá film archive. Young people from traditional families, some of them amateurs, play the roles, among them Dora Huergo and Lola Marcó del Pont, in theatre-style interiors and exteriors shot on the outskirts of the city. The scenes are not described; about 70% of the film survives.
Context
Produced by Max Glücksmann on the initiative of the charitable association of the Divino Rostro, the film was presented on 12 December 1914 at the Teatro Colón, before President Victorino de la Plaza, with a brochure that reproduced the screenplay. It measured 3,000 metres. It is not the country's first feature film, a film from 1913 having preceded it, but the oldest one preserved; the Museo del Cine keeps the only nitrate print.
Who it is for
A silent film of 81 minutes, preserved at about 70%, restored and digitised, shown in retrospectives.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the oldest surviving Argentine feature film, according to the Colombian film archive.
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