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.
Director: Miguel Littín
Writer: Francisco Coloane, Julius Popper, Luis Sepúlveda
Director of Photography: Giuseppe Lanci
Producer: Cristina Littin