Miguel Littín

Directing·Aug 9, 1942·Palmilla, O'Higgins, Chile

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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.

Film	Credit
Allende in His Maze2014 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Dawson Isla 102009 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
La última luna2005 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
EEl duelo2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Palestine Chronicle2001 · Director	Director
Tierra del fuego2000 · Director	Director
Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde1999 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Los náufragos1994 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Sandino1990 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Chile: A Genral Record1986 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
Alsino and the Condor1982 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Widow of Montiel1979 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Recourse to the Method1978 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Letters from Marusia1975 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said1973 · Director	Director
The Promised Land1973 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Compañero Presidente1971 · Director	Director
Jackal of Nahueltoro1970 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Por la tierra ajena1965 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director