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Ship of Fools

6.5 104 mins Drama   1995
Director(s): Ricardo Wullicher

Release Date: 13 Thu, Apr 1995

In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts to defend himself. Locked up, he waits for the arrival of "Caleuche," the Ship (Nave) of Fools (de los locos), a mythical figure of his ancestral strength which "made" him start the fire. An appointed lawyer (a white woman) comes to the chief's defence, alleging the chief had acted in self-defense as the white man was building commercial structures on the sacred burial grounds of his ancestors, and continued doing so even after heated protests.

Casts of Ship of Fools

Marisa Paredes

as Julia Márquez

Fernando Guillén

as Agustín Márquez

Inés Estévez

as Laura Montero

Miguel Ángel Solá

as Dr. Viale

China Zorrilla

as Dra. Marta Caminos

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