The Pearl Button
2015•NR•1h 22m•6.9•Released
Documentary
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline and the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian Indigenous people, the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
Director
Patricio Guzmán
Writer
Patricio Guzmán
Languages
Spanish
Studio
France 3 Cinéma
Cast
Patricio Guzmán
Narrator (voice)
Martín G. Calderón
Self
Gabriela Paterito
Self
Gabriel Salazar
Self
Claudio Mercado
Self
Raúl Zurita
Self
Cristina Calderón
Self
Adil Brkovic
Self
Javier Rebolledo
Self
Juan Molina
Self
Emma Malig
Self (uncredited)
Production
Company
France 3 Cinéma
Company
Ciné+
Company
Mediapro
Company
Atacama Productions
Company
Valdivia Film
Company
Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes
Company
CNC
Company
RTS
Company
France Télévisions
Company
WDR
Producer
Renate Sachse
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