Director
Ricardo Larrain

Writers
Jorge Goldenberg
Ricardo Larrain

Cast
Ramiro Orellana : Patricio Contreras
Maite : Gloria Laso
Delegate : Alonso Venegas
Secretary : Sergio Schmied
Diver : Aldo Bernales
Father Patricio : Hector Noguera
Don Ignacio : Patricio Bunster
Detective Robusto : Anibal Reyna
Detective Delgado : Sergio Hernandez
Laura : Elsa Poblete
Gutierrez : Sergio Madrid
Hernan : Joaquin Velasco
Sra Hilda : Griselda Nuñez
Assistant driver : Eugenio Morales
Bar owner : Raqual Curilem

Chilean directors, it seems, are all too often reluctant to make Chilean films. But Ricardo Larrain's 1991 film is firmly set in his homeland, and deals with 'the issues': it is set in Pinochet's Chile, when opponents of the regime could be exiled to small communities with strange results.

This is the fate suffered by the central figure in the film - Ramiro, a teacher - who is banished to a town in the far south prone to tidal waves and flooding. He falls for Maite, whose father asks Ramiro to take her away; but when the floodwaters come, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills. It's a very human and poetic love story, superbly acted and beautifully photographed.