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Photo 3. On the eve of the celebration
(1954) for the establishment of the first
Argentinian government (May 25,
1810), the film director Luis Cesar
Amadori premiered his film El grito
sagrado [The sacred cry], his most
important work and one of the most
outstanding of the Argentinian cinema.
The title and the release date is inferred
from the fact that the film deals with the
Argentina independence in strict
concordance with the epic-moralizing
approach of the great productions by
that the time to the national history in
order to inspire courage, patriotism and
sense of belonging to the spectators.
The plot demanded that blacks acted in
several scenes and Rita played his most

prominent role since Pampa Bárbara
(1945). This photo is attributed to
Francis
Boeniger,
commissioned
photographer of the film, and the
number in the lower right corner
indicates
the
location
in
the
photographic sequence. It was taken
during the scene of a public sale of
slaves. On the platform, a black dressed
in the European style puts in auction the
couple formed by Rita and Luis Medina
Castro, an Afro-Argentinian actor of
Cape Verdean origin.

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