The Pearl Button

The Pearl Button (2015)

12
13/06/2016 (GB)
Documentary
1h 22m

Overview

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.

  • Patricio GuzmánDirector, Writer
  • Original Title

    El botón de nácar

  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    Spanish

Keywords

  • indigenous
  • concentration camp
  • dictatorship
  • chile
  • genocide
  • south america
  • button
  • colonialism
  • british colonialism
  • indigenous peoples
  • colonization
  • political prisoners
  • cultural genocide
  • water
  • settler colonialism
  • patagonia
  • kawésqar

Top Billed Cast

Patricio Guzmán

Patricio Guzmán

Narrator (voice)

Martín G. Calderón

Self

Gabriela Paterito

Self

Gabriel Salazar

Gabriel Salazar

Self

Claudio Mercado

Self

Raúl Zurita

Raúl Zurita

Self

Cristina Calderón

Self

Adil Brkovic

Self

Javier Rebolledo

Javier Rebolledo

Self

Juan Molina

Self

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