The Pearl Button (2015)
October 15, 2015Release Date
The Pearl Button (2015)
October 15, 2015Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Martín G. Calderón
Self
Patricio Guzmán
Narrator
Claudio Mercado
Self
Gabriela Paterito
Self
Gabriel Salazar
Self
Cristina Calderón
Self
Raúl Zurita
Self
Adil Brkovic
Self
Javier Rebolledo
Self
Juan Molina
Self
Emma Malig
Self (uncredited)
Renate Sachse
Producer
Nicolás Lasnibat
Assistant Director / Production Assistant
Miguel Miranda
Composer
José Miguel Tobar
Composer
David Camus
Grip
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 15, 2015
Original NameEl botón de nácar
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 22m
Content RatingNR
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The Pearl Button (Spanish: El botón de nácar) is a 2015 Chilean documentary film directed by Patricio Guzmán. It was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for Best Script. It won the Lumières Award for Best Documentary at the 21st Lumières Awards. The filmmaker has described the work as part of a triptych with Nostalgia for the Light and third film The Cordillera of Dreams focusing on the Andes.
It explores familiar Guzmán themes such as memory and the historical past, particularly that of history's losers rather than victors, recording some of the last surviving members of the original Alacalufe and Yaghan tribes. A departure for Guzmán is that it does not focus solely on Chile's past under Augusto Pinochet, as the title was partly inspired by a shirt button discovered during a 2004 investigation by Chilean judge Juan Guzmán on a length of rail used to weigh the bodies of Pinochet's victims dumped in the sea and partly by the button after which the Yaghan native Jemmy Button was named when taken aboard HMS Beagle in 1830.