Miguel Littín

Miguel Littín

Born: August 9, 1942
in Palmilla, O'Higgins, Chile
Miguel Ernesto Littín Cucumides is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist. Miguel Littín directed the most popular Chilean film of all times, El Chacal de Nahueltoro (1969) becoming a figure of the New Latin American Cinema.

In México he directed several films. Letters from Marusia, based on a miners strike in Chile. Letters from Marusia was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. El Recurso del Método (Long Live the President) based on the Alejo Carpentier's book El Recurso del método (Reasons of State) a co-production with Mexico,France and Cuba. The Widow of Montiel with Geraldine Chaplin based on a Gabriel García Márquez short story. Then he went to Nicaragua to do Alsino and the Condor, based the novel Alsino by Pedro Prado. In 1981 he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.

He moved to Spain in 1984, Littín decided to enter Chile clandestine to do a documentary that showed the condition of the country under the Pinochet's regime. It was made the subject of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin.

He eventually returned to Chile where he continued to make films, among them Tierra del Fuego based on the adventures of Julius Popper an explorer and Dawson, Isla 10, about a group of political prisoners sent to Dawson's island during Pinochet's regime. Littín was the mayor of his home town in the center valley, Palmilla in 1992-94 and re-elected for the period 1996-2000.

His films Actas de Marusia and Alsino and the Condor were nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Film in a Foreign Language. Alsino and the Condor won the Golden Prize at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival.

His 2005 film The Last Moon was entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.

Movies for Miguel Littín...

Title: Chilevisión 60
Character: Self - Filmmaker and TV Director for Canal 9 (1963 - 1973)
Released: November 4, 2020
Type: TV
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Santiago, Italia
Title: Santiago, Italia
Character: Self - Filmmaker
Released: December 6, 2018
Type: Movie
After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many of them to Italy.
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Title: Algo personal
Character: Self
Released: February 23, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Mentiras verdaderas
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: TV
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.
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Title: Lorca: Death of a Poet
Character: Fernando de los Ríos
Released: November 28, 1987
Type: TV
Lorca, a great Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Nickolas Grace gives a fabulous interpretation in the title role and he even bears a remarkable resemblance to Lorca.
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Érase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo…
Title: Érase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo…
Released: December 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Feature film that wraps, through Jorge Lillo's text, three short films by Helvio Soto
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El Analfabeto
Title: El Analfabeto
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
Two guerrillas (Miguel Littin and Jorge Guerra) wander lost in the desert until one of them dies. A jeep appears in the distance to rescue the survivor, but unable to read the signs of comradeship pointed out to him by the drivers of the vehicle, he shoots them.
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Ana
Title: Ana
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Sequences that illustrate moments in a woman's life, in parallel to the political events happening in South America during the 60's.