Robinson Crusoe Island

Robinson Crusoe Island

43 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1999

A passionate fan of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as a 13-year-old boy, Guzmán was delighted to find in his adult years that the story is based on actual events & a real place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 700 kilometres from the Chilean coast. This moves him to film & construct a kind of ironic travel journal as he sets out to rediscover the island, all the while in constant play with the fields of history, literature & imagination.

Robinson Crusoe Island

43 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1999

Robinson Crusoe Island
A passionate fan of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as a 13-year-old boy, Guzmán was delighted to find in his adult years that the story is based on actual events & a real place in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 700 kilometres from the Chilean coast. This moves him to film & construct a kind of ironic travel journal as he sets out to rediscover the island, all the while in constant play with the fields of history, literature & imagination.
Producers JBA Production
Original title Isla de Robinson Crusoe
Directors Álvaro Silva Wuth, Patricio Guzmán
Writers Patricio Guzmán

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