Cinema
El último malón
Alcides Greca · 1918
Synopsis
The first part shows the poverty of the Mocoví of northern Santa Fe, the second reconstructs their 1904 attack on the town of San Javier, partly with men who had taken part in it, according to Cinemargentino. The Pordenone festival describes the estancia work and the caiman hunt, and a love plot wanted by the producer: Rosa Paiquí, contested by the cacique Bernardo López and his rebellious brother, Jesús Salvador López.
Context
On 21 April 1904, the Mocovíes of San Javier attacked the white population; the repression left more than fifty of them dead, recall the Giornate del Cinema Muto, who note a story told from the Mocoví point of view. It was Greca's only film. Fernando Birri saved it in 1956; the 35 mm print has since been lost, but the Rosario film club made a 16 mm reduction from it in 1968, which is kept by the Museo del Cine. Fernando Martín Peña and Paula Félix-Didier restored it in 2009.
Who it is for
A silent film of about seventy minutes, restored, shown at festivals and in retrospectives.
Prizes and reception
Presented in 2019 at the Pordenone silent film festival, in its 4K restored version.
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