Leopoldo Castedo

Montage documentary, built on footage taken during an expedition with the participation of writer Enrique Zorrilla, photographer Roberto Montandón and Leopoldo Castedo. Synthesis of a journey of one hundred thousand kilometers between Mexico and Tierra del Fuego around the heritage of the native peoples of Latin America.

On May 22, 1960, an earthquake with an intensity of 9.6 on the Richter Scale was recorded in the city of Valdivia, considered to date the largest and most violent earthquake ever recorded in the world. The cataclysm devastated the entire Chilean territory between Talca and Chiloé, which corresponds to more than 400,000 km. It resulted in the deaths of around three thousand people, while two million were left homeless. The film documents the efforts of a hundred workers in the face of the threat of the overflowing of Lake Riñihue.