Directed by Enric Ponsà Screenplay by Enric Ponsà Director Enrique Ponsa Producer LLorenç Arché Codina Cinematography José Navarro, Ramón Moore | Written by Enric Ponsà Production
company Produccions E.L.A. Story by Enrique Ponsa Executive producer Eduardo de C. Tarragó | |
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Produced by Llorenç Arché Codina
Josep Mª Casals Tarragó Starring Antonio B. de Vila, Mercedes Domènech, Rosita Ponsa, Lina Vivarelli, Antonio Granell, Valeriano Cortés, Jaime Reixach, Julio Payá, Eduard de C. Tarragó, Enrique Filló and girl Nuri Initial release 20 September 1927 (Barcelona) Cast Rosita Ponsa, Antonio B. de Vila, Julio Paya, Nuria Burgos | ||
Lo más sublime or Respetad a los señores maestros (meaning The most sublime or Respect the teachers) is a 1927 Catalan unreleased silent film produced in Barcelona by Producciones E.L.A. The drama was directed by Enrique Ponsá and protagonized by a group of young entrepreneurs who rolled the film in four months during the weekends in different places of Costa Brava, mainly Blanes.
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Plot
In San Cebrian, a coastal village, Rosa with her daughter Nuri and her godson Sardinilla, hoped for the return of her fisherman husband Juan, but they found him dead after the storm. Friends of the family, Antonio and Rosita, with Sardinilla decide to look for a treasure with the help of a map that kept Rosita. His enemies, Tomas and Andres, try to take it by deception. Andres, plus interest in Rosita, the beloved of Antonio, is a victim of Tomás greed's, but when he is wounded, Antonio and Sardinilla return him to the good track.
About the film
The film was made by ELA Productions, a newly company and unique film. LLorenç Arché Codina was one of the promoters as a producer, with Enrique Ponsa as a director, Antonio Burgos as a decorator and Josep Maria Casals Tarragó as an executive producer and actor.
It was filmed in the twenties when the landscape of the Costa Brava became interested for the filmmakers. Along with Lo más sublime, were also filmed at the same time: Lilian (1921), Entre Marinos (1920), El místic (1926), Baixant de la font del gat (1927), etc. The exteriors were shot in Blanes and the coast between Blanes, Lloret de Mar and Tossa de Mar. The beginning of the film gives an overview of San Cebrian taken from the big rock Sa Palomera in Blanes, considered the beginning of the Costa Brava.
On 20 September 1927 it was made a projection for the criticism that advised to cut intertitles, delete some others and eliminate some scenes of the film before presenting it to the public. With these changes it was foreseen a great success in Spain and good aspirations abroad. Lo más sublime was released on Teatre Novedades (Barcelona) in July 1928. The price of entry was 0.75 chair and general 0.40 cents of peseta. In 1992, a copy of the film, preserved in the original nitrocellulose support by children's executive producer, Albert & Josep-Maria Casals Martorell, was recovered by the film archive of Catalonia (Filmoteca de Catalunya) and transferred to a support that could be designed with safety guarantees. In January 1994 Lo más sublime was revived at Cine Alcazar in Barcelona, with piano accompaniment by Joan Pineda, coinciding with the opening of the publicity material between 1925 and 1936 exhibition about the Catalan film distributor Mundial Film.