Keywords
Colombian cinema history
silent cinema
Di Domenico brothers
censorship
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Abstract
In October, 1914, the liberal politician Rafael
Uribe Uribe was murdered in Bogota. A
year later, the Di Domenico brothers, pioneers
of Colombian cinema, filmed the movie The
Drama of 15 October, a work that recreated the
most important events of the bloody crime,
featuring Leovigildo Galarza and Jesús Carvajal,
murderers of the leader. For a silent-period
Colombian cinema, this film means one
of the most important and risky moves of its
cinematographic historic, taking into account
the situations borne by the exhibition of the
film, such as boycotting, criticism, and censorship,
which finally brought unfortunate consequences
for its preservation as a work with
audiovisual heritage value. The purpose of this
article is to make known the details of a work,
politically incorrect at the moment of its making,
highlighting through different sources
how our cinema history is strongly framed
by documentary narrations mixing reality and
fiction in the social events of a public figure in
the national context.
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