Cinema
Bambucos y corazones
Gabriel Martínez · 1945
Synopsis
A musical comedy built on the bambuco, the dance of the Colombian Andes, and on voices that radio had made familiar. The action takes place in a village on the Bogotá savanna, where the old aunts get worked up and where everything is known. The songs come first, the sentimental plot second: that was the formula of the company that produced it, and of all that cinema. The film had been announced a year earlier under a longer title, which began with the name of the woollen garment of the Andean peasants.
Context
Produced by Patria Films, the company founded in 1943 by Chilean actors from a variety troupe and radio men who had left Ducrane. The film was announced on 14 September 1944 under a longer provisional title. The calculation was the same as for the earlier films: to take the popular repertoire and the stars of the airwaves, the only audience the producers knew how to reach in the face of the Mexican and Argentine films that filled the cinemas. It was not enough: the four companies that had produced ten feature films between 1941 and 1945 all ceased activity in 1946.
Who it is for
A musical comedy from 1945 of which only fragments survive, in Spanish. One goes for the songs and the faces, not for the story.
Prizes and reception
One of the ten feature films of the only wave that Colombian cinema had known before the seventies.