''Cofralandes, Chilean Rhapsody'' () is an experimental four-part 2002 Franco-Chilean
digital video
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Chilean Ministry of Education
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. The first part won the Glauber Rocha Award for the Best Film from Latin America and a
FIPRESCI Award
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at the
Montreal World Film Festival
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Cast
* Bernard Pautrat as Bernard
* Raúl Ruiz as narrator
* Malcolm Coad as English journalist
* Rainer Krause as German artist
* Ignacio Agüero as Rafael
* Mario Montilles as old Rafael
* Marcial Edwards as a guide in the Museum of Nothing
* Javier Maldonado as a guide in the Museum of the Sandwich
* Francisco Reyes as patriotic priest
* Amparo Noguera as patriotic priest's realist sister
*
Néstor Cantillana
Néstor Igor Cantillana (born July 19, 1975 in Santiago, Chile, Santiago) is a Chilean actor in theater, movies and TV.
Life and career
Cantillana's grandmother was a communist and later she practiced the evangelic religion and he grew up under ...
as country bumpkin
*
Isabel Parra
Violeta Isabel Cereceda Parra (born 29 September 1939), better known as Isabel Parra, is a famous Chilean singer-songwriter and interpreter of Latin American musical folklore.
Early years
Parra was born in Chile in 1939 and began her career in ...
as Death
* Ángel Parra as Our Lord Jesus Christ
* Miriam Heard as a consular officer
* Luis Villaman as Don Marat the schoolteacher
* José Luis Barba as Cuban schoolteacher
References
Further reading
* Depetris Chauvin, Irene (2015); "Texturas del pasado, performances del presente. Historia y giro afectivo en la rapsodia chilena de Raúl Ruiz" in Cecilia Macón and Mariela Solana (eds.) ''Pretérito indefinido: Afectos y emociones en las aproximaciones al pasado'', Título, pp. 113–135.
* Marinescu, Andreea (2017); "Raúl Ruiz's Surrealist Documentary of Return: ''Le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques'' (1983) and ''Colfralandes'' (2002)" in Ignacio López-Vicuña and Andreea Marinescu (eds.) ''Raúl Ruiz's Cinema of Inquiry'', Wayne State University Press, pp. 177–196.
* Rodríguez-Remedi, Alejandra (2009); "''Cofralandes'': A Formative Space for Chilean Identity" in Miriam Haddu and Joanna Page (eds.) ''Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America'', Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 87–103.
* Thies, Sebastian (2011); "Nomadic Narration and Deterritorialized Nationscape in ''Cofralandes: Rapsodia chilena'' (2004) by Raúl Ruiz" in Josef Raab, Sebastian Thies and Daniela Noll-Opitz (eds.) ''Screening the Americas: Narration of Nation in Documentary'', Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 273–296.