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Release Date:
October 15, 2015
Original Title:
El botón de nácar
Alternate Titles:
A gyöngyház gomb
Der Perlmuttknopf
La memoria dell'acqua
Le bouton de nacre
O Botão de Pérola
Perlemorsknappen
Perłowy guzik
Pärlemorknappen
Secretul nasturelui de sidef
The Pearl Button: Vannets mysterium
Το μαργαριταρένιο κουμπί
Перламутровая пуговица
真珠のボタン
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Atacama Productions
CNC
Ciné+
Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes
France 3 Cinéma
France Télévisions
Mediapro
RTS
Valdivia Film
WDR
Production Countries:
Chile | France | Spain | Switzerland
Ratings / Certifications:
BR: 16 FR: TP GB: 12 JP: PG12 NL: 12 US: NR
Runtime: 82
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.
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Additional Music:
Hugues Maréchal
Art Direction:
Pamela Chamorro
Assistant Director:
Nicolás Lasnibat
Assistant Editor:
Janusz Baranek
Camera Operator:
Katell Djian
Director:
Patricio Guzmán
Director of Photography:
Katell Djian
Editor:
Patricio Guzmán
Emmanuelle Joly
Grip:
David Camus
Key Grip:
Stéphane Germain
Original Music Composer:
José Miguel Tobar
Miguel Miranda
Producer:
Renate Sachse
Production Assistant:
Nicolás Lasnibat
Sound:
Álvaro Silva Wuth
Sound Editor:
Jean-Jacques Quinet
Sound Mixer:
Jean-Jacques Quinet
Visual Effects Coordinator:
Manon Le Bas
Visual Effects Producer:
Sophie Denize
Writer:
Patricio Guzmán
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