Feature film
El retorno
A. F. Bertoni · 1930
Synopsis
Rodrigo and his cousin Eugenia are engaged on a coffee hacienda. Rodrigo wants to study law in the capital, and his uncle agrees to send him there. In the city, with his friend the journalist “Cupido” Delgado, he goes through a series of mishaps that get him into trouble, and the film thus contrasts country life with city life.
Context
Announced by the press for nearly a year, the film was released on 16 November 1930 at the Cine Variedades, from a screenplay by Gonzalo Chacón Trejos, with photography by Walter Bolandi and a Costa Rican cast. The critics praised its premiere. Long forgotten in the storerooms of the Variedades, it was restored in 1995, for the centenary of cinema, with the help of UNESCO, which financed a safety copy made from the original nitrate print; it returned to cinemas in 2011.
Who it is for
A seventy-minute black-and-white film, which the Costa Rican Film Centre makes available online free of charge.
Prizes and reception
The first fiction feature film produced in Costa Rica, praised by critics on its release and restored sixty-five years later.
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