Lo más sublime

Lo más sublime or Respetad a los señores maestros[1] (meaning The most sublime or Respect the teachers) is a 1927 Catalan unreleased silent film produced in Barcelona[2] by Producciones E.L.A.[3] The drama was directed by Enrique Ponsá and protagonized by a group of young entrepreneurs who rolled the film in four months during the weekends in different places of Costa Brava, mainly Blanes. [4][5][6]

Lo más sublime
Directed byEnric Ponsà
Produced byLlorenç Arché Codina
Josep Mª Casals Tarragó
Written byEnric Ponsà
Screenplay byEnric Ponsà
StarringAntonio B. de Vila, Mercedes Domènech, Rosita Ponsa, Lina Vivarelli, Antonio Granell, Valeriano Cortés, Jaime Reixach, Julio Payá, Eduard de C. Tarragó, Enrique Filló and girl Nuri
CinematographyAntonio Burgos
Production
company
Produccions E.L.A.
Release date
  • 20 September 1927 (1927-09-20) (Barcelona)
Running time
60 minutes, 1614 meters
CountrySpain
LanguageSilent film
Spanish intertitles

Plot

In San Cebrian, a coastal village, Rosa with her daughter Nuri and her godson Sardinilla, hoped for the return of her fisherman husband Juan, but they found him dead after the storm. Friends of the family, Antonio and Rosita, with Sardinilla decide to look for a treasure with the help of a map that kept Rosita. His enemies, Tomas and Andres, try to take it by deception. Andres, plus interest in Rosita, the beloved of Antonio, is a victim of Tomás greed's, but when he is wounded, Antonio and Sardinilla return him to the good track.

Cast
CharacterActorPseudonym
Antonio[7]Antonio B. De VilaAntonio Burgos
RosaMercedes Doménech
Ana MariaRosita Ponsá
ClaraLina Vivarelli
Andrés, the traitorAntonio Granell
Carlos, the SardinillaValeriano Cortés
JuanJaime ReixachJaume Ponsá Doménech
GasparJulio Paya
Ibo, the schooner's captainEduard de C. TarragóJosep Maria Casals Tarragó
LucasEnrique Filló
young girl NuriNuria Burgos

About the film

The film was made by ELA Productions, a newly company and unique film.[3] LLorenç Arché Codina was one of the promoters as a producer, with Enrique Ponsa as a director, Antonio Burgos as a decorator[8] and Josep Maria Casals Tarragó as an executive producer and actor.[5]

rock Sa Palomera at bottom, firstly women from sculpture Al Sardanista

It was filmed in the twenties when the landscape of the Costa Brava became interested for the filmmakers. Along with Lo más sublime, were also filmed at the same time: Lilian (1921), Entre Marinos (1920), El místic (1926), Baixant de la font del gat (1927), etc.[9] The exteriors were shot in Blanes and the coast between Blanes, Lloret de Mar and Tossa de Mar. The beginning of the film gives an overview of San Cebrian taken from the big rock Sa Palomera in Blanes, considered the beginning of the Costa Brava.[10]

On 20 September 1927 it was made a projection for the criticism[7] that advised to cut intertitles, delete some others and eliminate some scenes of the film before presenting it to the public.[3] With these changes it was foreseen a great success in Spain and good aspirations abroad.[11] Lo más sublime was released on Teatre Novedades (Barcelona) in July 1928. The price of entry was 0.75 chair and general 0.40 cents of peseta.[12] In 1992, a copy of the film, preserved in the original nitrocellulose support by children's executive producer, Albert & Josep-Maria Casals Martorell, was recovered[13] by the film archive of Catalonia (Filmoteca de Catalunya) and transferred to a support that could be designed with safety guarantees. In January 1994 Lo más sublime was revived[14] at Cine Alcazar in Barcelona, with piano accompaniment by Joan Pineda, coinciding with the opening of the publicity material between 1925 and 1936 exhibition about the Catalan film distributor Mundial Film.[15]

  • Advertising on Popular Film, 21 July 1927
  • ELA Productions (Barcelona)

See also

References
  1. Porter i Moix, Miquel (1992). Història del cinema a Catalunya (1895-1990). Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura. p. 175. ISBN 978-84-393-2123-1.
  2. Suárez Guillen, Antonio (16 June 1927). "¿Se incorpora Barcelona a la industria cinematográfica española?" [Is Barcelona joining in the Spanish film industry?]. Popular Film (II year, Number 46) (in Spanish). Barcelona: 5–6.
  3. P. de F. (24 September 1927). "Una primera producció. La E.L.A. presenta "Lo más sublime"" [A first production. The E.L.A. presents "Lo más sublime"]. La Publicitat (in Catalan). Barcelona: 8–9.
  4. "La Costa Brava, escenario de Lo más sublime" [La Costa Brava, scene of "Lo más sublime"]. Popular Film (II year, Number 60) (in Spanish). Barcelona: 1–27–28. 22 September 1927. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  5. De la Riva i Vegas, Pere (31 January 1994). "Lo más sublime". Filmoteca de la Generalitat de Catalunya. El fons de l'arxiu. Suplement al programa nº19 (in Catalan). Barcelona.
  6. Portell i del Pozo, Roser (1998). Lo más sublime (1927) [The most sublime (1927)] (in Catalan). Girona.
  7. "Producciones "ELA"". Arte y Cinematografía (Year XVIII, number 317-318) (in Spanish). Barcelona: 64. September–October 1927. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  8. Santos Cantero, Mateo (18 August 1927). "La Industria del celuloide en España" [Celluloid industry in Spain]. Popular Film (II year, Number 55) (in Spanish). Barcelona: 5. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  9. Molinas i Falgueras, Lluís (2009). Costa Brava, plató de cinema [Costa Brava, a movie set] (in Catalan). Girona: Brau Edicions. p. 15.
  10. Gómez Martínez, Ferran (1996). Lo más sublime [The most sublime] (in Catalan). Barcelona. ISBN 978-84-613-4243-3.
  11. GAZEL (29 September 1927). "Proyecciones de prueba: Lo más sublime" [Test screenings: Lo más sublime]. Popular Film (II year, Number 61) (in Spanish). Barcelona: 7. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  12. "Espectaculos. Teatro Novedades" [Shows. Novedades theater] (PDF). La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona: 24. 29 July 1928. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  13. Riambau, Esteve (1 February 1994). "La Filmoteca de Catalunya recupera una cinta catalana inèdita dels anys 20 titulada "Lo más sublime"" [The film library of Catalonia recovers an unreleased catalan film from the 20s titled "The most sublime"]. Avui (XVIII year, Number 5844) (in Catalan). Barcelona: 42.
  14. Gimenez i Riba, Anton (31 January 1994). "Lo más sublime". Filmoteca de la Generalitat de Catalunya. El fons de l'arxiu. Suplement al programa nº19 (in Catalan). Barcelona.
  15. Mercadé, J. (2 February 1994). "Cine Club Sabadell, primera entitat local que exporta una exposició a Barcelona" [Sabadell Film Club, the first local association that exports an exhibition to Barcelona]. Diari de Sabadell (XVIII year, Number 3669) (in Catalan). Sabadell: 4.

Bibliography

There are two original research about the film in the archives of Blanes (Barcelona) city:

  • Gómez Martínez, Ferran (1996). Lo más sublime [The most sublime] (in Catalan). Barcelona.
  • Portell i del Pozo, Roser (1998). Lo más sublime (1927) [The most sublime (1927)] (in Catalan). Girona.
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