Dreams of Ice

1994 | 56 minutes | 8.0 ★ (1)

Dreams of Ice
  • Overview

    In 1992 the Universal Exhibition in Seville was held in Spain. Chile participated in this exhibition by displaying in its pavilion an ice floe captured and brought especially by sea from Antarctica. In these true facts is based the fantasy narrated in Dreams of Ice. Filmed between November 1991 and May 1992 on board the ships Galvarino, Aconcagua and Maullín, in a voyage that goes from Antarctica to Spain, in this documentary film in which dreams, myths and facts converge towards a poetic tale turned into a seafaring saga, in the manner of the legends of the seafarers that populate the mythology of the American continent and universal literature.

  • Release Date

    15 November 1994

  • DirectingIgnacio Agüero
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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