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.
Ornella Muti , Tamara Acosta , Nelson Villagra , Álvaro Rudolphy , Nancho Novo , Luis Alarcón , Uxía Blanco , Jorge Perugorría , Claudio Santamaria
Castelao Productions
