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El Húsar de la Muerte

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El Húsar de la Muerte
Pedro Sienna as Manuel Rodríguez in "The Hussar of the Death'"
Directed byPedro Sienna
Written byPedro Sienna
Hugo Silva
Produced byAlfredo Wolnitzki
StarringPedro Sienna

Piet Van Ravenstein
Clara Werther
María de Hanning
Dolores Anziani
Hugo Silva
Piet van Ravebstein
Luis Baeza
Octavio Soto
Federico Geimza
Guillermo Barrientos
Emilia Sierra
Ángel Díaz

Víctor Véjar
CinematographyGustavo Bussenius
Distributed byAndes Films.
Release date
November 24, 1925
CountryChile
LanguageSilent

El Húsar de la Muerte (Spanish: The Hussar of the Death) is a 1925 Chilean silent film movie. El Húsar de la Muerte was directed and starred by Pedro Sienna.

The movie narrates the adventures of the guerrilla leader Manuel Rodríguez during the Reconquista, until his death in 1818.[1]

The movie lasts 65 minutes, and was premiered in Santiago, Chile, on November 24, 1925.

Cast

Actor Character
Pedro Sienna Manuel Rodríguez
Clara Werther Carmen de Aguirre
Piet Van Ravenstein
Guillermo Barrientos El Huacho Pelao
María de Hanning
Dolores Anziani Charito
Hugo Silva Home making - Patriotical
Piet van Ravebstein
Luis Baeza
Octavio Soto
Federico Geimza
Guillermo Barrientos
Guillermo Barrientos
Emilia Sierra
Ángel Díaz
Víctor Véjar

Production

Director Pedro Sienna selected the cast from people that he found on the street.[2]

The film was restored in 1962 by Cinemateca de la Universidad de Chile, with music by Sergio Ortega[2] (with the Chilean government help).

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