Garras de oro
| Garras de oro | |
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| Directed by | P. P. Jambrina (pseudonym) |
| Music by | Marco A. Ruiz (restored version) |
Production company | Cali Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 56 minutes (restored) |
| Country | Colombia |
| Language | Silent film |
Garras de oro(Golden Claws), also known asAlborada de justicia(Dawn of Justice), is a 1927 Colombian silent film.
Background
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The direction of the film is credited to "P.P. Jambrina", which was apseudonymused byAlfonso Martínez Velasco,who became mayor ofCalifrom September 1930 to September 1931. The film is a fierce critique ofUnited States policy towards Latin America,focusing in particular on the United States' backing of Panamanian separatists that led to thepartition of the former Isthmus Department from Colombia.
The film's openingintertitlereads: "This film-novel is to protect from the oblivion of memory an important episode in modern history, which by fortune became the first stone in a landslide that tore apart ourcoat of armsand battered our eagles. "
It is believed that all actors and staff involved in the film employed pseudonyms in order to avoid the fallout from what in 1926 was still a very polemical subject in Colombia. The film was censored by the Colombian government upon its release. It subsequently faded from the public view and was thoughtlostfor decades.[1]
It was found and restored by theFundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano,though only the film's beginning, end, as well as another three reels' worth of footage has been found.
The restoration of the extant footage was screened inNew York Cityin 2008, followed by a second screening at theGuadalajara International Film Festivalin 2009. The film has since been referred to as the first anti-imperialist film.[2]
See also
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[edit]- ^"Cine Colombiano: GARRAS DE ORO: (THE DAWN OF JUSTICE - ALBORADA DE JUSTICIA)"[Colombian Film: GOLDEN CLAWS: (THE DAWN OF JUSTICE - DAWN OF JUSTICE)].Proimágenes Colombia(in Spanish).Retrieved7 February2014.
- ^Manrique, Jaime E. (23 January 2014)."Garras de oro, P.P. Jambrina"[Golden Claws, P.P. Jambrina] (in Spanish).Arcadia.Retrieved7 February2014.