Prisioneros de la tierra/Prisoners of the Earth (Mario Soffici, Argentina, 1939).

https://notesonfilm1.com/2023/04/15/prisioneros-de-la-tierra-prisoners-of-the-earth-mario-soffici-argentina-1939/ Seen as part of The Film Foundation’s ‘Restoration Screening Room’: Prisioneros de la tierra/Prisoners of the Earth (Mario Soffici, Argentina, 1939) is a melodrama that vividly evokes emotions but channels them so the film also acts as a social critique of colonialism, exploitative employment practices, the treatment of indigenous peoples by foreign capital, class and ethnicity. A revelation that encourages revolution or at least warns of uprisings. A film that generally tops the charts of best films ever made in Argentina. We discuss all this and more in the accompanying podcast: