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GALINDO CARDONA, Yamid. Reality and Fiction about the Murder of Rafael Uribe Uribe in the Movie The Drama of 15 October in 1915. Mem. Soc. [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.40, pp.243-264. ISSN 0122-5197.  https://doi.org/0.11144/Javeriana.mys20-40.rfar.

In October, 1914, the liberal politician Rafael Uribe Uribe was murdered in Bogota. A year later, the Di Domenico brothers, pioneers of Colombian cinema, filmed the movie The Drama of 15 October, a work that recreated the most important events of the bloody crime, featuring Leovigildo Galarza and Jesús Carvajal, murderers of the leader. For a silent-period Colombian cinema, this film means one of the most important and risky moves of its cinematographic historic, taking into account the situations borne by the exhibition of the film, such as boycotting, criticism, and censorship, which finally brought unfortunate consequences for its preservation as a work with audiovisual heritage value. The purpose of this article is to make known the details of a work, politically incorrect at the moment of its making, highlighting through different sources how our cinema history is strongly framed by documentary narrations mixing reality and fiction in the social events of a public figure in the national context.

Palabras clave : Rafael Uribe Uribe; Colombian cinema history; silent cinema; Di Domenico brothers; censorship.

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