“She lived it much more directly because she lived it here throughout Latin America, because the one who traveled the world with the film was Susú… I say that she gave me a country,” added the Spanish actor Imanol Arias, 68 years old. .
For Pecoraro, the effect that Camila It was due – in part – to the delivery of all the equipment when recording the film.
“It is a pivotal moment for Argentine cinema, too… we were just talking about it with the cameraman and the team – who we met with them after so many years – that we were aware that we were doing something good, we had a lot of commitment and we were very young because I thought: ‘Imanol was a child, now that I see photos from that time; I was a baby and I say that that could be my granddaughter today. How could we have had so much responsibility? How did we give each scene. everything there was to give being so young?'” recalled the film, theater and television performer.
“There was always the small question about María Luisa Bemberg, over time what emerges is a woman who is above the film, above us, above its conception… there was a filmmaker and a woman with a commitment that not only It was a commitment to make, but with an ideological commitment to women, to history and to cinema, which was shocking,” Arias added, praising the work of the Argentine director María Luisa Bemberg, who died on May 7. 1995 in Buenos Aires.
Another determining factor that marked the success of Camila lies in the script, which was written by Bemberg along with Beda Docampo Feijóo and Juan Bautista Stagnaro.
“The script was excellent. I came from reading many scripts and making adaptations because I had been making a program… the script when you read it was all there. You had to risk everything to do it all so young…”, stated Susú Pecoraro.
Plot of Camila
The film recreates the true story of the romance between Camila O’Gorman (Susú Pecoraro) and the priest Ladislao Gutiérrez (Imanol Arias), during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas in Buenos Aires, in the first half of the 19th century.
Camila begins to experience a feeling of affection for Father Ladislao, and to show more and more interest in him. At first he rejects her, following the mandate of celibacy imposed by the Catholic Church. But he ends up giving in to his passions and finally, in a scene in the bell tower, he confesses his love for Camila.
They both decide to escape, and take refuge in the town of Goya, in the province of Corrientes, taking false names (Ladislao Gutiérrez adopted the name Máximo Brandier, and Camila O’Gorman called herself Valentina Desán). There they become teachers in a rural school.
On the occasion of an event to which they are invited, they are discovered by a priest who knows Ladislao. An inhabitant of the town where they were hiding, in charge of security, offers them a horse and provisions so that they can escape before dawn, when he will have no choice but to arrest them. Camila waits impatiently for Ladislao’s arrival to escape before dawn, but Ladislao – full of guilt – takes refuge in a church between prayers and tears. He finally returns at dawn, when his fate is already signed: both are arrested and imprisoned separately.
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