#1144: SOFFICI, Mario: Prisioneros de la tierra (1939)
SOFFICI, Mario (Argentina)
Prisioneros de la tierra [1939]
Director/Writers
Prisioneros de la tierra [1939]
Spine #1144
Blu-ray
The most acclaimed film by one of classic Argentine cinema’s foremost directors, Mario Soffici’s gut-punching work of social realism, shot on location in the dense, sweltering jungle of the Misiones region, simmers with rage against the oppression of workers. A group of desperate men are conscripted into indentured labor on a treacherous, disease-ridden yerba maté plantation under the control of the brutal foreman Köhner (Francisco Petrone)—a situation that boils over in an explosive act of rebellion led by the defiant Podeley (Ángel Magaña), and made all the more tense by the fact that Köhner and Podeley love the same woman: Andrea (Elisa Galvé), the sweet-spirited daughter of the camp’s doctor. The expressionistic, shadow-sculpted cinematography of Pablo Tabernero evokes the feverish dread of a place where suffocating heat, economic exploitation, and unremitting cruelty lead inexorably to madness and violence.
86 minutes
Black and White
Monaural
in Spanish and Guarani
1:37:1
Criterion Release 2022
Black and White
Monaural
in Spanish and Guarani
1:37:1
Criterion Release 2022
Based on characters from the short stories Una bofetada, Un peon, and Los destiladores de naranjes by Horacio Quiroga.
Screenplay by Ulises Petit de Murat and Dario Quiroga.
Mario Soffici was 39 when he directed Prisioneros de la tierra.
Screenplay by Ulises Petit de Murat and Dario Quiroga.
Mario Soffici was 39 when he directed Prisioneros de la tierra.
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Seventy-six page booklet featuring an essay by Matthew B. Karush.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese.
Program
On Prisioneros de la tierra featuring interviews with Paula Félix-Didier, director of the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken, and archivist Andrés Levinson.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Seventy-six page booklet featuring an essay by Matthew B. Karush.
Commentary
None.
Introduction
By The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese.
Program
On Prisioneros de la tierra featuring interviews with Paula Félix-Didier, director of the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken, and archivist Andrés Levinson.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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