Robinson Crusoe Island

Robinson Crusoe Island

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1999

Runtime

0h 43m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Isla de Robinson Crusoe

Production Companies

JBA Production

Director

Patricio Guzmán

Description

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.