El fusilamiento de Dorrego

El fusilamiento de Dorrego
Directed byMario Gallo
Written byMario Gallo
Produced byMario Gallo
Starring
Release date
  • 24 May 1908 (1908-05-24) (Argentina)
Running time
10-12 minutes[1]
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

El fusilamiento de Dorrego (The Execution of Dorrego) is a 1908 Argentine film written and directed by Mario Gallo and starring Salvador Rosich [es], Eliseo Gutiérrez [es], and Roberto Casaux [es]. It depicts the 1828 death of statesman Manuel Dorrego, played by Rosich.[2]

It is considered to be a lost film.[3][4]

Production

The director Mario Gallo, an Italian who had arrived in Argentina in 1905, began shooting the country's first fiction films in 1908. The traditional account, endorsed by film researcher and historian Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken, is that El fusilamiento de Dorrego was released on 24 May 1908.[5] Other researchers date its filming two years later, which would make 1909's La Revolución de Mayo the first.[2][6][7]

Filming took place on the terrace of the Teatro Nuevo and in the Palermo Woods of Buenos Aires.[3][8]

Legacy

Some scholars see in Gallo's film work the influence of Film d'Art [fr], which since 1908 had been France's first approach to cinema as art, moving it away from the mere spectacle of the fairground. This had its first expression in The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, a film that also had the distinction of being the first to feature original music.[7]

Pablo C. Ducrós Hicken, who viewed El fusilamiento de Dorrego in the 1920s, compared it favorably with contemporary Pathé films, and described it as "well composed".[9][10] However, some other accounts mention audience members laughing at inconsistencies such as cars passing by in the background of a scene ostensibly set in the 1820s.[3]

References

  1. ^ Raponi, Graciela; Boselli, Alberto; Taquini, Graciela (September 1989). "Construcción del espacio propio y el primitivo Cine Argentino (1826–1930)" [Construction of the Proper Space and the Primitive Argentine Cinema (1826–1930)] (PDF). Seminario de Critica (in Spanish) (12). University of Buenos Aires: 16–17. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b La época de oro: historia del cine argentino [The Golden Age: History of Argentine Film]. Ediciones del Jilguero. 1998. pp. 12–13. ISBN 9789879578650. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b c "Cine nacional e identidad: Los primeros pasos" [National Cinema and Identity: The First Steps] (PDF). Creación y Producción en Diseño y Comunicación (in Spanish) (1). Buenos Aires: University of Palermo: 17–19. August 2004. ISSN 1668-5229. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  4. ^ Cuarterolo, Andrea (31 May 2013). "2.4 El arte de instruir deleitando. Discurso nacionalista y cine de ficción". De la foto al fotograma [From the Photo to the Frame] (in Spanish). p. 134. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via issuu.
  5. ^ "La ficción y los personajes" [Fiction and Characters] (in Spanish). Historia del Cine Argentino. Archived from the original on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  6. ^ España, Claudio (6 July 1996). "Aniversario porteño pero en inglés" [Buenos Aires Anniversary But in English]. La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 29 December 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
  7. ^ a b De Vita, Pablo. "Congreso FIAF: Nueva vida para primer film argumental argentino" [FIAF Congress: New Life for First Argentine Fiction Film]. elcine.ws (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  8. ^ Vázquez Rial, Horacio (1996). "Los porteños y el cine". Buenos Aires, 1880–1930: la capital de un imperio imaginario [Buenos Aires, 1880–1930: The Capital of an Imaginary Empire]. St. Martin's Press. p. 381. ISBN 9788420694726. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Ducrós Hicken, Pablo C. (5 April 1942). "Primeros tiempos del cine argentino" [Early Days of Argentine Cinema]. La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  10. ^ Cuarterolo, Andrea (31 May 2013). "1.2.1 El color como atracción". De la foto al fotograma [From the Photo to the Frame] (in Spanish). p. 56. Retrieved 20 December 2017 – via issuu.