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2004 | Color | 92 min

The turbulent and dramatic story of an island which Mexico lost to France in a disputed international arbitration in 1932. It features pirates, kings, emperors, Porfirio Díaz, F. D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and a Mexican lighthouse-keeper who proclaimed himself the King of Clipperton


Country: México
Direction: Amram; Robert
Script: Amram; Robert
Production: Arango; Manuel
Photography: N López; Juan, Warriner; Gray, Pilafian; Peter
Music: Herrera; Diego, Neufeld; Robert
Participation year at FICM: 2004

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