Cinema
The Return to the Bulin
La vuelta al bulín
José Agustín Ferreyra · 1926
Synopsis
A short comedy that takes up the tango “De vuelta al bulín”, according to Cinemargentino, with Álvaro Escobar and Jorge Lafuente; it was reportedly shot for a play by Escobar. Silent London sees in it comic scenes from the tango milieu, and TheTVDB sums it up in one sentence: a poor man dominated by an unfaithful wife. The sequence of scenes is not described any further.
Context
Released on 1 July 1926, according to TheTVDB, the film was thought lost; a nitrate print held at the Museo del Cine was identified by Paula Félix-Didier and Fernando Martín Peña, and the Buenos Aires independent film festival funded an internegative in 2009, according to Cinemargentino. It is one of four silent shorts recovered by that museum, which London saw for the first time in April 2012, reports Silent London, which notes that Ferreyra often started from tango lyrics.
Who it is for
A silent comedy of about twenty minutes, rediscovered and restored, shown at festivals.
Prizes and reception
One of only three silent films by its author that survive, according to Yanina Jensen.
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