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Cinema
La silla
Franklin Domínguez · 1963
Synopsis
A monologue brought to the screen: a man alone, played by the actor Camilo Carrau, speaks, and his speech denounces the horrors of the Trujillo regime. The text had been written in January 1961, a few months before the dictator's fall, to be delivered in public and raise funds against him; it was filmed only after the tyrant's assassination, and presented in 1963.
Context
The film, credited with Camilo Carrau and Clark Johnson and shot in New York according to Acento, was shown in 1963, at the Elite theatre according to an article in Acento, at the Colón theatre in Santiago according to El Dinero. It is regarded as the first Dominican fiction feature film since the fall of the dictatorship, even as the country's first feature film. The original was damaged by water during Hurricane Inés and has been lost.
Who it is for
In Spanish; a film now lost, known through its text and the accounts of its contemporaries.
Prizes and reception
Hailed at the death of its author as the foundation stone of Dominican cinema, for its boldness against the dictatorship.
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