The Pearl Button (2015) [NR]

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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