Patricio Guzman	...	(Director)
Patricio Guzmán	...	(Writer)
Gaspar Galaz	...	Himself - Astronomer
Vicky Saavedra	...
Lautaro Núñez	...	Himself - Archeologist
Luís Henríquez	...	Himself
Miguel Lawner	...	Himself - Architect
Victor González	...	Himself - Engineer
Vicky Saaveda	...	Herself
Violeta Berrios	...	Herself
George Preston	...	Himself - Astronomer
Valentina Rodríguez	...	Herself
Gaspar Calas	...	Himself - Astronomer
Miguel	...	Himself - Architect
Víctor González	...	Himself - Engineer
Katell Djian	...	Cinematographer
Patricio Guzmán	...	Film Editor
Emmanuelle Joly	...	Film Editor
Freddy González	...	Sound Department
Michel Monier	...	Sound Department
Jean-Jacques Quinet	...	Sound Department
Marie-Jeanne Wyckmans	...	Sound Department
Miguel Miranda	...	Composer
José Miguel Tobar	...	Composer
Nicolas Lasnibat	...	first assistant director
Cristóbal Vicente	...	first assistant director

Summary: For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries (THE BATTLE OF CHILE, SALVADOR ALLENDE), travels 10,000 feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact: those of Pre-Columbian mummies; 19th century explorers and miners; and the remains of political prisoners, disappeared by the Chilean army after the military coup of September, 1973. So while astronomers examine the most distant and oldest galaxies, at the foot of the mountains, women, surviving relatives of the disappeared whose bodies were dumped here, search, even after twenty-five years, for the remains of their loved ones, to reclaim their families histories. Melding the celestial quest of the astronomers and the earthly one of the women, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey.