The Dawning of the Day

The Dawning of the Day (2021)

ඇල්බොරාදා

The Poem Neruda Never Wrote

Pablo arrives in British Ceylon from Burma to flee a traumatic relationship that had changed from love into passionate obsession. He notices a young pariah woman who empties his outhouse every morning. To Pablo she appears divine. In one morning, he takes her hand and leads her into his bed. Unable to believe or accept her bizarre fate, she remains passive throughout the series of events that unfold thereafter.

Date of release
2021-10-30
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Drama
Director
Asoka Handagama

Casting

Interesting facts

Alborada is a 2021 Sri Lankan multilingual biographical romantic film directed by Asoka Handagama and produced by H.D. Premasiri for Sarasavi Cineroo. The film is based on the fictionalized sex life of Chile's Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda from 1929 to 1931 in Sri Lanka. It stars Luis J. Romero and Anne Solen Hatte in the lead roles, alongside Dominic Keller, Malcolm Machado and Rithika Kodithuwakku in supporting roles. The Spanish meaning of 'Alborada' is "the dawning of the day".

Production

The earliest information on Pablo Neruda's presence as Chilean Consul of Sri Lanka and the experiences he encountered in Sri Lanka was first found by Handagama in Tissa Abeysekera's book "Ayaale Giya Sithak". It was in those days that the idea of making a film based on that incident came to his mind.

Meanwhile, women's and student movements are protesting against a proposal in parliament to rename Chile's main airport, Santiago, as Pablo Neruda Airport in 2018. Due to the strength of the opposition, the government had to withdraw the resolution. The script was fully prepared throughout 2019 and it was decided to shoot in 2020 amidst COVID-19 pandemic.

Sri Lankan artists of foreign origin were selected for the supporting roles. The role of Lionel Wendt is played by Dominic Keller. Nimaya Harris as Neruda's liberated girlfriend. Malcolm Machado plays the servant and Rithika Kodithuwakku plays as the Tamil garbage cleaner.

The production plan of the film was done by Nimal Dushmantha. Then he built Ranminithenna cinema village as a model of the old Colombo Fort. Nonagama was selected as the scene of the Sakkili community singing.

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