The film is based on the novel (of the same name) by the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane, and on the chronicles of the Romanian engineer Julius Popper, a nationalized Argentine and one of the principle actors in the genocide of the Selk'nam, one of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago.

Genres

Cast

Ornella Muti

Armenia

Tamara Acosta

Mennar

Nelson Villagra

Novak

Álvaro Rudolphy

Schaefer

Nancho Novo

Silveira

Luis Alarcón

Alexis

Uxía Blanco

Mother Silveira

Jorge Perugorría

Julius Popper

Claudio Santamaria

Spiro