For the biography of the character, the play or the films, see Juan Moreira.
Juan Moreira is a play considered as the founding piece of the River Plate theater. It was written by the Argentinean Eduardo Gutiérrez initially like novel and published like leaflet between 1878 and 1880. It is considered one of the most important texts of the Argentine literature and the Hispanic American romance.
Before the success of the novel, an American circus asked Gutiérrez to make a mimic-dramatic version to be represented in circus shows, which he did in 1884. In 1886, Jose Podestá work, taking it from the novel and represented it for several decades, turning it into one of the most important historical successes of Argentine theater.
The work was also taken twice to the cinema: in 1948, directed by Luis José Moglia Barth; and in 1973, directed by Leonardo Favio. Synopsis
The story is inspired by a real police chronicle actually carried out by a Buenos Aires gaucho named Juan Moreira, who was killed by the police in 1874. Sources
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