The Hussar of Death (1925)
El húsar de la muerte
Depicts the deeds of Chilean national hero Manuel Rodriguez and the events of the Chilean War of Independence against Spain in the early 1800s.
- Date of release
- 1925-11-24
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genres
- History, Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Pedro Sienna
Casting
- Pedro Sienna — Manuel Rodríguez
- Clara Werther — Carmen de Aguirre
- Dolores Anziani — Charito
- Hugo Silva — Jefe del Hogar Patriota
- Guillermo Barrientos — "El Huacho Pelao"
- Piet Van Ravenstein
- Luis Baeza
- Octavio Soto
- Federico Geimza
- Emilia Sierra
- Ángel Díaz y Méndez
- Víctor Véjar
Interesting facts
El Húsar de la Muerte is a 1925 Chilean silent film directed by and starring Pedro Sienna. The movie depicts the adventures of guerrilla leader Manuel Rodríguez during the Reconquista, culminating in his death in 1818.
Production & film restoration
Director Pedro Sienna selected the cast from people that he found on the street.
The film was considered lost until 1959, when it was found in deplorable condition and with some title cards incomplete, but thanks to Pedro Sienna's own supervision, the film was restored in 1962 by Cineteca de la Universidad de Chile, with music by Sergio Ortega (with the Chilean government help).
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Mexico 86 2026 · ★ 7.7
- Dalíland 2022 · ★ 5.9
- Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher 2022 · ★ 6.2
- Wittgenstein 1993 · ★ 6.4
- Memories of My Father 2020 · ★ 7.4
- A Call to Spy 2020 · ★ 6.8
- A Futile and Stupid Gesture 2018 · ★ 6.4
- The Current War 2018 · ★ 6.7
- Field of Lost Shoes 2015 · ★ 6.1
- The Red Virgin 2024 · ★ 7.1
- Mary 2024 · ★ 6.3
- Mr. Turner 2014 · ★ 6.6