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Silent Cinema Jewel ‘El Husar de la Muerte’ Gets New Restoration from Chile’s Cineteca
Ed Meza @edmezavarChile’s Cineteca Nacional, established in 2006, is working on a new restoration of Pedro Sienna’s “El húsar de la muerte” (1925), considered the most important silent feature film in Chilean history, the portrait of Chilean freedom fighter Manuel Rodríguez (1785-1818), a key figure in Chile’s War of Independence against the Spanish crown.First restored by Sienna himself, when a copy turned up in a deplorable condition in 1959, the new restoration of the silent chime jewel will be ready from October, Macarena Bello Martínez, the Cineteca’s mediation and audiences coordinator, as the Cineteca printing its current line-up at the Locarno Festival’s Heritage Online, a new data base for film classics.
