The Pearl Button

1h 22m

6.9

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.

Cast

Patricio Guzmán

Narrator (voice)

Martín G. Calderón

Gabriela Paterito

Gabriel Salazar

Claudio Mercado

Cristina Calderón

Javier Rebolledo

Self (uncredited)

Crew

Patricio Guzmán

Director, Writer, Editor, Additional Photography

Emmanuelle Joly

Assistant Editor

Director of Photography, Camera Operator

Nicolás Lasnibat

Assistant Director, Production Assistant

Jean-Jacques Quinet

Sound Editor, Sound Mixer

Álvaro Silva Wuth

Visual Effects Producer

Visual Effects Coordinator

Original Music Composer

José Miguel Tobar

Original Music Composer

Hugues Maréchal

Additional Music

Hughes Maréchal

Additional Music

Still Photographer

Still Photographer

A. M. de Agostini

Still Photographer

Still Photographer

Francisco Bocco de Petris

Still Photographer

Roberto M. Gertmann H.

Still Photographer

Carles Wellington Furlong

Still Photographer

Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg

Still Photographer

Additional Photography

Yves de Peretti

Additional Photography

Elizabeth Farnsworth

Additional Photography

Patricio Lanfranco Leverton

Additional Photography

Additional Photography

Stéphane Germain

Benjamin Lemonnyer

Pamela Chamorro