03:34: Earthquake in Chile is a Chilean film

Cinema of Chile

The cinema of Chile began when the earliest films were made there in the first decade of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, it was not until the 1970s when the cinematic culture there developed, with the foundation of a national cinema and a department of experimental film at the University of...

 directed by Juan Pablo Ternicier, and written by Mateo Iribarren, which will narrate three different stories, based on the 8.8 Richter magnitude earthquake

2010 Chile earthquake

The 2010 Chile earthquake occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February 2010, at 03:34 local time , having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes. It ranks as the sixth largest earthquake ever to be recorded by a...

, and subsequent tsunami

Tsunami

A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...

 that hit Chile in 2010.

The movie will be premiered in the town of Dichato

Dichato

Dichato is a town along the coast of Chile, part of the municipality of Tomé in the northest part of Greater Concepción. At the 2002 census it had 3,057 residents...

, in the Biobío Region, on February 27, 2011, exactly a year after the catastrophe, and will be released to the rest of Chile on March 3. The first teaser of 03:34 appeared in the Internet on January 17, 2011.

The movie began to be filmed in November 2010, in the same places that the catastrophe occurred, with the support of the National Council of Culture and the Arts

National Council of Culture and the Arts

The National Council of Culture and the Arts is the Chilean government agency responsible for arts and cultural policy. The Council was founded in 2003 and amalgamated arts and cultural policy under a single agency. It is a cabinet level position in the Chilean position...

, and Carabineros de Chile

Carabineros de Chile

thumb|250px|Carabineros de Chile, patrolling a street in [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]]The Carabiniers of Chile, are the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmerie, created on April 27, 1927. Their mission is to maintain order and create public respect for the laws of the country...

, who helped with the recording in the affected zones. The movie had a budget of 1.4 million US dollars, and all money grossed by the movie will be given for the construction of schools in the most affected coastal zones.

Plot

The movie shows three stories of people that was affected by the disaster.

The first of them, shows a woman (Andrea Freund) that goes from Pichilemu

Pichilemu

Pichilemu , originally known as Pichilemo, is a beach resort city and commune in central Chile, and capital of Cardenal Caro Province. It is located southwest of Santiago, the capital of Chile, and comprises an urban center and twenty-three villages, such as Ciruelos, Cáhuil, and Espinillo...

, O'Higgins Region

O'Higgins Region

The VI O'Higgins Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is subdivided into three provinces. It is named in honour of Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, one of Chile's founding fathers....

, to the devastated town of Dichato

Dichato

Dichato is a town along the coast of Chile, part of the municipality of Tomé in the northest part of Greater Concepción. At the 2002 census it had 3,057 residents...

, Biobío Region, as her sons were there spending their vacations there with Manuel (Marcelo Alonso), their father.

The second story shows the experience of a convict (Fernando Gómez-Revira), who escapes from the Chillán

Chillán

Chillán is a city in the Biobío Region of Chile located about south of the country's capital, Santiago, near the geographical center of the country. It is the capital of Ñuble Province and, with a population of approximately 170,000 people , the most populated urban center of this province...

 Prison to Concepción

Concepción, Chile

Concepción is a city in Chile, capital of Concepción Province and of the Biobío Region or Region VIII. Greater Concepción is the second-largest conurbation in the country, with 889,725 inhabitants...

, as his daughter was in the Alto Río building, which collapsed during the earthquake.

The third story is developed in Dichato, where a group of young people (Loreto Aravena, Eduardo Paxeco, and Andrés Reyes), while enjoying their last day of vacations in a party, experience the strong movement and tsunami that annihilates the place.

Cast

• Andrea Freund
• Marcelo Alonso
• Loreto Aravena
• Fernando Gómez-Revira
• Eduardo Paxeco
• Andrés Reyes
• Gabriela Medina
• Berta Lasala
• Remigio Remedy
• María Paz Jorquera
• Hugo Medina
• Jorge Ali
• Jose Luis Bouchon
• Nathalia Aragonese
• Claudio Castellón
• Ernesto Anacona
• Julio Fuentes