La guerra gaucha

La guerra gaucha became one of the greatest successes in the history of Argentine cinema. The action takes place in Salta, in the context of the War of Independence, and portrays the resistance of the gauchos commanded by Martín Miguel de Güemes against the advance of the royalist forces. Based on the homonymous book by Leopoldo Lugones, the screenplay takes up and reworks several of their stories to narrate the struggle for freedom of the "nameless" ––as read in the moving closing of the film––, anonymous heroes capable of giving everything for country. With an epic and emotional tone built with the best weapons of the classic style, and as rooted in the territory as the characters that star in it, La guerra gaucha became one of the most complete examples of a popular cinema in search of a national identity.