Cinema
La quena de la muerte
Nelo Cosimi · 1929
Synopsis
A woman and her lover withdraw to the mountains to recover from their dissipated life in the city, but the calm does not last, according to Cinemargentino. The man tries to seduce a local woman, and the woman brings a young man from the area into her room. Peter H. Rist describes the confrontation between a mestizo, played by Cosimi, and his sister and this upper-class couple from Buenos Aires, and Cinemargentino notes a romance between an Indian and a white woman, who makes the first move.
Context
Shot in 1928 in the province of Córdoba and released in 1929, the film was a great success and is among the surviving films of its author, according to Rist. Notre Dame University, which screened it in 2019 with a new score by Hernán Reinaudo, reports that Cosimi shot it at the same time as two other films, in four months. Cinemargentino sees in it a melodrama of jealousy and betrayal.
Who it is for
A silent drama of about seventy minutes, preserved, sometimes shown with a new score.
Prizes and reception
A great success in Argentina on its release in 1929, according to the film historian Peter H. Rist.
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