Juan sin Ropa (1919)

Curiosidades

Juan Sin Ropa is a 1919 mostly lost Argentine silent melodrama film directed by Georges Benoît and starring Camila Quiroga, Héctor G. Quiroga, José de Ángel, Julio Escarsela and Alfredo Carrizo. It was produced during a brief flourishing period of silent films in Argentina in the second half of the 1910s, when the country became one of the most important producers in Latin American cinema and a leader in the Spanish-speaking world. In this context, Juan Sin Ropa was part of a trend that relied on considerable investment in renowned theatrical actors, successful playwrights and experienced foreign directors to produce a "quality cinema", comparable to the big U.S.

Background and production

Juan Sin Ropa was produced and released during the pinnacle of silent film production in Argentina, a "golden age" in which the country began to "lead in the production of Spanish-language silent films, with more than 100 feature films being made from 1915 to 1924, equal to the combined total of films made in Mexico and Spain." The film was the only production by Quiroga-Benoît Film, a production company formed by Camila and Héctor Quiroga—a pres…

On July 17, 1918, the shooting of exterior scenes began and, following several interruptions caused by the theater commitments of some cast members, the production was finally completed in early December. The state of the film's shooting was sustainedly reported with advertisements by Quiroga-Benoît Film in the specialized magazine La Película, published from October to December of that year.

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