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Bloody Nitrate (1969)

2h 8m

Running Time

Bloody Nitrate (1969)

Name: Bloody Nitrate
Genre: Drama
Released: 1969-10-27

2h 8m

Running Time

Plot.

Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain. The Lieutenant is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.

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Cast & Crew.

Héctor Duvauchelle

Patricia Guzmán

La cholita

Jaime Vadell

Jorge Guerra

Jorge Yáñez

Mario Vernal

Teresa Vernal

Arnaldo Berríos

Actor

Angel Lattus

Jorge Lillo

Helvio Soto

Director / Screenplay

Silvio Caiozzi

Director of Photography

Tito Lederman

Music

Gonzalo Salvo

Sound

Carlos Piaggio

Editor

Sergio Trabucco

Assistant Director

Alejandro Villaseca

Producer

Arturo Feliú

Production Consultant

Olivia de Ugarte

Art Direction

Details.

Release Date
October 27, 1969

Original Name
Caliche sangriento

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 8m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-11

This Movie Is About.

pacific war

Wiki.

Caliche sangriento (i.e. Bloody Nitrate) is a Chilean movie of 1969 and the first one directed by Helvio Soto. The plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific, when Chile, Bolivia and Peru fought over control of the sodium nitrate deposits in the Atacama Desert. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America. The style of the movie has been compared to that of Western and Spaghetti Western movies.