Cinema
Sendero de luz
Emilio Álvarez Correa · 1945
Synopsis
A rural drama with tragic intentions. Armando looks for his father's murderer, assisted by a faithful friend; the two fall in love with the same girl, who happens to be the murderer's cousin, and agree to compete for her by a test: the first to fell a tree will go and ask for her favours. The bandit, hunted and jealous, prepares a trap of his own beneath the trees. The girl notices it and runs to warn them. The roles are played by radio voices, which the cinema of the time used for lack of professional actors.
Context
Released on 22 November 1945 at the Faenza theatre in Bogotá and in two cinemas in Bucaramanga. It is the third and last feature film of Ducrane Films, founded around 1942 by Oswaldo Duperly and the Crane Uribe brothers, whose combined names gave the company its name, and the only one from this company that is not a musical comedy: the two earlier ones had succeeded, whereas this one arrives when audiences are turning away from national production. The screenplay is by Matilde Sandoval, based on a story by the novelist Jaime Ibáñez, and the cinematography is by Hans Brückner.
Who it is for
Sixty-seven minutes preserved, in black and white, in Spanish. A melodrama of conventional construction, played by radio and stage actors.
Prizes and reception
One of the last films of the wave begun in 1941, and the only drama of a production that had succeeded only with musical comedies.
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