Roberto Estrada Vergara

Mudos testigos is a cinematographic collage made from all the surviving material of Colombian silent films, re-editing the images in such a way as to create a single imaginary film: the impossible love story of Efraín and Alicia that traces the convulsive first half of the twentieth century in Colombia. Compiled by the late Luis Ospina and finished posthumously by Jeronimo Atehortúa.

A man suffers from leprosy. The disease progresses in such a way that it drives him to madness, without his wife's knowledge. She begins to suffer a progressive moral deterioration, which completely ruins the marital relationship, this intense conflict leads to the worst outcome.

A young and beautiful woman is soon to be married. However, her plans are complicated by the attraction she begins to feel for the painter who paints her portrait, who is also a boxer.

This cinematographic work was taken from the theater to the screen after it was premiered on June 21, 1924 by the Adams-Nieva company at the Municipal Theater and withdrawn by the "Junta de censura" (Censorship Board). Only some journalistic testimonies of its existence remain.

Adaptation of the novel by José María Vargas Vila, a romantic drama that tells about the middle-class Bogota early last century.