Nostalgia de la Luz – Heimweh nach den Sternen
Premiere NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ in Cannes
Patricio Guzmán’s new film is selected for a Séance Spéciale / Sélection Officielle
90′Documentary Film by Patricio Guzmán
SYNOPSIS
In the vast Atacama desert in northern Chile there are six huge international astronomical observatories, the most sophisticated and powerful on the planet. There, scientists from all over the world seek out the universe‚s oldest stars in order to know a little more about the earth‚s future.
In the middle of the desert, just a few kilometres from the telescopes, the relatives of the dictator Pinochet‚s victims look for the bodies of the „disappeared”, still buried in mass graves after more than 30 years. With their bare hands they search for the traces of a past still uncertain so as to mourn their loved ones and build a future for their children.
Meanwhile in Santiago de Chile, the political and economic forces seek material wealth and triumph, obscuring the past and denying history.
FILMOGRAPHY
Patricio Guzmán was born in 1941 in Santiago de Chile. He studied in the Official Film School in Madrid where he specialised in documentary cinema. His work is regularly selected for and awarded prizes by international festivals. In 1973 he filmed „The Battle of Chile”, a five-hour documentary about the end of Allende‚s period of government. CINEASTE magazine described it as „one of the 10 best political films in the world”. After the coup d‚état, Guzmán was arrested and taken to the Santiago National Stadium for two weeks. He left the country in November 1973. He has lived in Cuba, Spain and France where he made, „In the Name of God” (Grand Prize, Florence 1987), „The Southern Cross” (Grand Prize, Marseille 1992), „Obstinate Memory” (Golden Spire Award, San Francisco 1998), „The Pinochet Case” (International Critic‚s Week, Cannes 2002) and „Salvador Allende” (Official Selection, Cannes 2004). He teaches documentary cinema both in Europe and in Latin America. He is the founder and director of the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival. He lives in France.
CREDITS
Author and director – Patricio Guzmán
DoP and Photography – Katell Djian
Sound – Freddy González
Director’s Assistant – Cristóbal Vicent and Nicolás Lasnibat
Production Manager Chile – Verónica Rosselot
Editor – Patricio Guzmán und Emmanuelle Joly
Editing Consultant – Ewa Lenkiewicz
Sound Editing – Damien Defays and Jean-Jacques Quinet
Music – J. Miguel Miranda and J. Miguel Tobar
Aristic Consultant – Renate Sachse
Commissioning Editor WDR – Jutta Krug
Producer Chile – Cristóbal Vicente
Producer France – Renate Sachse
Producer Germany – Meike Martens
A co-production of Atacama Productions S.A.R.L – Blinker Filmproduktion GmbH – Cronomedia Ltda. – WDR
supported by Fonds Sud Cinéma – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication CNC
Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes France
Brouillon d‚un rêve de la Scam – Région Île de France – Sundance Documentary Fund
and with the participation of Television Española TVE
World Sales and French distribution: Pyramide
German distribution: RealFiction
