Cinema
La guerra gaucha
Lucas Demare · 1942
Synopsis
Salta, 1817. During the war of independence, Güemes's gaucho guerrillas harass the Spanish royalist army. Lieutenant Villarreal, a royalist officer wounded and captured, is nursed by Asunción Colombres, mistress of an estancia, who discovers in his papers that he was born in Lima and sets out to win him over to the cause of America. The sacristan Lucero and Captain Miranda lead the fight. According to the Free University of Berlin's entry, the film makes the gaucho a romantic hero.
Context
The first production of the cooperative Artistas Argentinos Asociados, released on 20 November 1942, the film adapts the book of the same name by Leopoldo Lugones, from a screenplay by Homero Manzi and Ulyses Petit de Murat, who wanted a national western, according to the Berlin record. It cost about 269,000 pesos and drew 170,000 viewers in nineteen weeks. It came out during the world war, in a neutral Argentina where nationalism was rising.
Who it is for
A historical film in Spanish of nearly two hours, with a gallery of characters and guerrilla scenes.
Prizes and reception
Third in the Museo del Cine polls of 1977 and 1984, and three Silver Condors in 1943.
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