María (1922)

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María is a 1922 Colombian silent film in black and white, directed by Máximo Calvo Olmedo and Alfredo del Diestro.

Production

In the early 1900s, Colombia's economic boom favored the development of cinema, enabling many films to be imported and several movie theaters to be built, such as Bogotá's Gran Salón Olympia, inaugurated on December 8, 1912. The Italian Di Domenico brothers moved to Bogotá in 1909, before setting up the Sociedad Industrial Cinematográfica Latinoamericana (SICLA) in 1913.

For the screenplay, they chose to adapt Jorge Isaacs' only novel, María (published in 1867), which has become one of the most notable works of Romanticism in Spanish literature. Considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish-American literature, María tells several stories of impossible love, the characters belonging to different social classes or ethnic groups, notably that between Efraín and his cousin María.

Explanations differ as to the origins of the project.

According to most sources, the idea for the film came from Franciscan priest Antonio José Posada, a Colombian living in Panama at the time. A theater and film buff, he had seen several films by the Spaniard Máximo Calvo Olmedo, including Guerra entre Panamá y Costa Rica. In 1921, he suggested to Calvo, then in Panama, that he make a film based on the novel María by Jorge Isaacs.

Other sources suggest another hypothesis. According to two sources at the time, the idea was the brainchild of Alfredo del Diestro, who approached Francesco Di Domenico with a view to bringing it to fruition, but failed to reach an agreement.

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