"El infierno del Chaco" had another version in 1938, with the images of the last peace negociations."El infierno del Chaco" had another version in 1938, with the images of the last peace negociations."El infierno del Chaco" had another version in 1938, with the images of the last peace negociations.
Eligio Ayala
- Self
- (as Presidente Eusebio Ayala)
José Félix Estigarribia
- Self
- (as Mcal Jose Felix Estigarribia)
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- TriviaA promotional material for the film presented the following: "The only film of the Paraguayan-Bolivian war, filmed with the authorization of the Government of Paraguay. The real expression of the struggle in the Chaco Boreal, under a fiery sky, filmed by the Argentine cameraman Roque Funes, who, with the kind collaboration of the Government of Paraguay, managed to take the most interesting notes of the current war. The attack on Boquerón. The Bolivian resistance. Flying over the line of fire. Troops making their way through the jungle. Bayonet charge. Artillery in action. Fall of Boquerón. Wounded people and prisoners on the march towards Asunción and a thousand scenes of the war taken in the same front fields. The horror and heroism of man in the face of thirst, hunger and death".
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Early reports on the Chaco War
The Chaco War, a dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay between 1932-35, received an important early coverage by Argentinean filmmaker Roque
Funes. The territorial conflict presents Paraguay's point of view with the first battles, military campaigns, the treatment of the wounded
soldiers, and the many encouragments received by authorities and the nation's president.
"In the Hell of Chaco" has a significant importance of presenting an early register from Paraguay's cinema, one of the few surviving films from the period and the war was covered in other projects as well, and also an important register of a then-ungoing war in South America, a rare event for the whole territory during the 20th century.
Seeing the project is so-and-so, as it gets tiring for a while, and there are times it gives the impression of not being a documentary but rather something specifically acted. Maybe we have to take into consideration that it's a mix of both, as we watch some moments from the battles, the planes used in it - though we never seen them much in action.
While the titles detail everything we're seeing, we are shielded a little from the exact nature of the territorial conflict, and it gets a biased position since it tells one side of the story without following the other, and several times there's a propaganda style showing praise for the Paraguyan military.
Must say that it's visually impressive for its period and for being a magnificent example of powerful South American cinema from an early period, both for its report, some memorable and haunting images - a wounded soldier being treated, with his stomach receiving a series of stitches is unforgettable; the nurses devotion; and the animated maps presenting the conflict's location. A must-see classic for enthusiasts of silent documentaries. 6/10.
"In the Hell of Chaco" has a significant importance of presenting an early register from Paraguay's cinema, one of the few surviving films from the period and the war was covered in other projects as well, and also an important register of a then-ungoing war in South America, a rare event for the whole territory during the 20th century.
Seeing the project is so-and-so, as it gets tiring for a while, and there are times it gives the impression of not being a documentary but rather something specifically acted. Maybe we have to take into consideration that it's a mix of both, as we watch some moments from the battles, the planes used in it - though we never seen them much in action.
While the titles detail everything we're seeing, we are shielded a little from the exact nature of the territorial conflict, and it gets a biased position since it tells one side of the story without following the other, and several times there's a propaganda style showing praise for the Paraguyan military.
Must say that it's visually impressive for its period and for being a magnificent example of powerful South American cinema from an early period, both for its report, some memorable and haunting images - a wounded soldier being treated, with his stomach receiving a series of stitches is unforgettable; the nurses devotion; and the animated maps presenting the conflict's location. A must-see classic for enthusiasts of silent documentaries. 6/10.
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- Rodrigo_Amaro
- Apr 18, 2024
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