His Best Student
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| name = His Best Student
| image = Su mejor alumno.jpg
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| director = Lucas Demare
| producer =
| writer = Homero Manzi, Ulises Petit de Murat
| screenplay =
| story =
| based_on = {{based on|Vida de Dominguito|Domingo F. Sarmiento}}
| starring = Enrique Muiño and Ángel Magaña
| narrator =
| music = Lucio Demare
| cinematography = Bob Roberts
| editing = Carlos Rinaldi
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| released = {{Film date|1944|05|22|Buenos Aires|df=y}}
| runtime = 114 minutes
| country = Argentina
| language = Spanish
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His Best Student (Spanish:Su mejor alumno) is a 1944 Argentine biographical film of the classical period directed by Lucas Demare and starring Enrique Muiño and Ángel Magaña. It was released in Buenos Aires on 22 May 1944. The film won many awards, including the award for best film of the year.
In a survey of the 100 greatest films of Argentine cinema carried out by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000, the film reached the 39th position.{{cite journal|url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITZbOc_XZnbJ1W2a9Lq9Zk8xJRrWrzPg/view|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121182959/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ITZbOc_XZnbJ1W2a9Lq9Zk8xJRrWrzPg/view|archive-date=21 November 2022|accessdate=21 November 2022|year=2000|issue=3|work=La mirada cautiva|location=Buenos Aires|publisher=Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken|via=Encuesta de cine argentino 2022 on Google Drive|pages=6–14|title=Las 100 mejores del periodo 1933-1999 del Cine Argentino}}
Synopsis
The film is an emotional enactment of the life of Domingo Sarmiento, the son of a former president of Argentina and the father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (Enrique Muiño). "Dominguito" volunteers to fight in the Paraguayan War, in which he dies.{{sfn|Plazaola|1989|p=69}} It is based on Vida de Dominguito ("Dominguito's life"), written by his father.{{sfn|Su mejor alumno, IMDb}}
Cast
The cast included:{{sfn|Su mejor alumno, IMDb}}
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- Enrique Muiño (Domingo Faustino Sarmiento)
- Ángel Magaña (Dominguito)
- Orestes Caviglia
- Norma Castillo
- Guillermo Battaglia
- María Esther Buschiazzo
- Hugo Pimentel
- Alberto de Mendoza
- Judith Sulián
- Domingo Márquez
- Bernardo Perrone
- René Mugica
- Pedro Fiorito
- Horacio Priani
- Mario Lozano
- César Fiaschi
- Warly Ceriani
- Américo Sanjurjo
- Alberto Terrones
- Pablo Cumo
- Carlos Lagrotta
- Arsenio Perdiguero
- Carmen Giménez
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Awards
The Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences gave a number of awards for the film:{{sfn|ARCHIVO · Premios Anuales 1941 - 1953}}
- Best Picture: Artistas Argentinos Asociados
- Best director: Lucas Demare
- Best original story Ulyses Petit de Murat and Homero Manzi
- Best Actor Enrique Muiño
- Best scenography Ralph Pappier
- Best cinematographer Bob Roberts
- Best sound Ramón Ator
- Best editing Carlos Rinaldi
At the 1945 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards the film won Best Film,{{cite web|url=http://www.cine.ar/contenidos/38-Premios-Condor/ |title=Los ganadores, año por año |publisher=Cine.ar |access-date=16 June 2014 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813030353/http://www.cine.ar/contenidos/38-Premios-Condor/ |archive-date=13 August 2014 }} Best Director, Best Actor (Enrique Muiño), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ulises Petit de Murat, Homero Manzi) and Best Camera Operator (Humberto Peruzzi).
References
Citations
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Sources
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- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|ARCHIVO · Premios Anuales 1941 - 1953}}|url=http://www.academiadecine.org.ar/premios-anuales2.php |language=es
|title=ARCHIVO · Premios Anuales 1941 - 1953|publisher=Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas|access-date=2014-05-30}}
- {{cite book|last=Plazaola|first=Luis Trelles|title=South American Cinema/ Cine De America Del Sur: Dictionary of Film Makers/ Diccionario De Los Productores De Peliculas
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VansCHXxnZYC&pg=PA69|access-date=2014-05-31|date=1989-01-01|publisher=La Editorial, UPR|isbn=978-0-8477-2011-8}}
- {{cite web|ref={{harvid|Su mejor alumno, IMDb}}|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037320/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
|title=Su mejor alumno|work=IMDb|access-date=2014-05-31}}
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{{Lucas Demare}}
{{Silver Condor Award Best Film}}
Category:1940s historical drama films
Category:Argentine historical drama films
Category:1940s Spanish-language films
Category:Argentine black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by Lucas Demare
Category:Argentine biographical drama films
Category:1940s biographical drama films
Category:Films set in the 1850s
Category:Films set in the 1860s
Category:Films set in Argentina
Category:Films set in Paraguay
Category:1940s Argentine films
Category:Spanish-language biographical drama films
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