An unreleased short film starring Eva Duarte de Perón, The Honeymoon of Inés, was presented

Agnes’s honeymoonan advertising short film starring Eva Perón, was screened for the first time on Monday 8 August at the Evita Museum, as part of the activities for the 70th anniversary of his death.

The unpublished material, from 1938, it was restored by the historian Fernando Peña thanks to an initiative of the Evita Museum and the Eva Perón National Institute of Historical Research, with the support of the Cultural Patronage of the City of Buenos Aires.

The short, just six minutes long, is probably María Eva Duarte’s first work In front of the cameras and according to the specialists it was certainly the only film advertisement to have her as a protagonist, even if as a graphic model her participation in various advertising pieces was quite frequent.

The word of the Minister of Culture

“The marvel of cinema that has the power to bring us to life Evita and there is that perception that his image and his example of life, which marked us all in a definitive way “, highlighted in the presentation the Minister of Culture of the Nation, Tristán Bauer.

The official stressed that “to save the importance that Evita has for our history, for Argentina, for South America and for the world, all in that short and intense life”.

Agnes’s honeymoon it was kept for decades by the La Rocca familyowner of the film distributor INCA Films in Argentina.

“It was a very important rescue, our family practically kept this incunabulum and was saved from the pit of oblivion,” Sergio La Rocca told Télam.

“Saving such fresh images of an Evita so young and strong, being able to bequeath them to the entire Argentine community, I think is a very important merit,” said La Rocca, who decades later confessed a “malice”.

Together with his brother Tito Livio, when they were children but aware that Evita’s images were in a can, they decided that with scissors they could cut frames out of ita disaster that decades later Peña would have to repair with infinite patience.

How did the restoration material arrive?

The popularizer, sitting next to La Rocca in the bar of the Evita Museum, told in detail how the material arrived in his hands.

“Sergio’s brother, Tito Livio, was a friend of Carlos Caloi to whom he told him he had the film,” Peña reviewed.

“El Negro organized meetings at his house to watch the films I attended and the material was kept for ten years because it was forgotten, first because of the He dropped and then by his wife María, until finally Evita’s birthday was remembered in 2019 and I came to meet him there, “he added.

Ines’s honeymoon has like responsible towards the advertising agency Linter and the direction of M. Casenal.

Avoid, at 20

There Eva Duarte is seen, at just 20 years old, as the prototype woman of the time – or at least as she should be according to the imagery of the 40s -, just married and expecting her husband arriving at noon to taste the dishes his young wife had diligently prepared.

But although affectionate, the man cannot hide his disgust for food that doesn’t meet your expectations because it has no olive oil. The young husband suggests that his distraught wife seek advice from her mother.

At dinner, however, the young wife solves the “problem” by finding the exact taste she achieves thanks to Olavina oil, which is not olive oil but has the same taste and “is cheaper”.

Sure, himthe work has the testimonial value of seeing Eve in her role as an actressbut the plot of the short film also gave rise to an interesting interpretation by Fernando Peña.

“It is the first material that exists with her as a protagonist, because later her entire film career has been in supporting roles until the prodigalthat would be the other protagonist, “he said.

Peña analyzed: “Between these two works, the first and the last, it seems to me just that it is the span of his own lifewith a short film about a shy, introverted girl and what we know she became later, an emancipated, strong, lonely woman, whom everyone talks about and protects the poor and marginalized “.

“It’s already a rather unusual kind of prophecy of what the real woman will be.” concluded.

The exhibition of the advertising short starring Eva Duarte fFurthermore, the presentation of the Audiovisual Center of the Evita Museumchaired by Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez, great-granddaughter of Eva Perón and current Minister of the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires.

“When I saw this material for the first time I had a great shock and emotion, because it is to see an Evita”, he told in front of the crowded auditorium of the Museum and interpreted the story of the short film as the other side of Eva Perón’s short life.

“Perhaps it was the fate of the cradle, but it was not the fate of life that it built upon itself, which seems to me absolutely revealing, since she chose to be a free woman“, he reflected.

Source: Telam

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