1939 Peruvian Films

Tierra Linda (Beautiful Land)
by Sigifredo Salas

David arrives to a traditional hacienda of the Peruvian coast. He’s an engineer that’s been hired to build an industrial complex. He is traveling with Ramon, a dazed assistant. The hacienda is property of the Herrera family, where Doña Rosario, widow of the founder, and their daughter Marta live. The foreman is wooing Marta, who is careless and conceited, which makes her mock David’s laconic and immaculate character. Slowly, Marta begins her attraction towards him, a romance which embitters the foreman, whose jealousy makes him find a way to discredit David.

Comments:

This film took the setting of the “hacienda film” made famous by Gallo de mi Galpón and El Guapo del Pueblo (The Town’s Good-looking Guy), but it limited itself to tell a romantic story, diminishing the Criollo additives. In reality, the story was alternated with a group of dramatic scenes, inspired once again by the contest for the country estate’s heiress, with others clearly with a mocking tone, played by Alejandro ‘Alex’ Valle y Antonia Puro.

El Vértigo de los Cóndores (The Condors’ Vertigo)
by Roberto Saa Silva

Comments:

The proposal of Ollanta Films, the production company, was to make a film of considerable budget bursting with spectacular scenes. The film told the story of pilots that traveled through Peru. It was mandatory, to not disappoint the audience already familiar and used to watching elaborate action flight sequences in other foreign aviation films, El Vértigo de los Cóndores included shots from the highlands, the most notable settings of the country, headed, of course, by Machu Picchu.

There’s no surviving copy of this film.

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