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The anniversaries of May 23 bring together a series of events that happened on a day like today, Thursday when a new National Cinema Day.
The date arises in tribute to the first movie plot made in the country: The May Revolutionwhich was directed by Mario Gallo and premiered in Ateneo Theater of Buenos Aires on this day in 1909. The silent film, screened the year before the first centenary of the formation of the First Board, was the first feature film by Gallo, an immigrant of Italian origin who had made the shorts Squares and walks of Buenos Aires (1907) and The execution of Dorrego (1908).
The movie that inspired National Cinema Day It stars the Uruguayan actor Eliseo Gutiérrez, César Fiaschi and the director himself. Throughout his plot, he presents a tribute film to the events that led to the expulsion of viceregal power in Buenos Aires and the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, of which that was the capital. Furthermore, it marked a historic event that is celebrated today as event: the premiere of first national feature film.
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