Miguel Littín

Biography

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 wher…

Directed

1. Jackal of Nahueltoro (1970) — Director
2. Alsino and the Condor (1982) — Director
3. Letters from Marusia (1975) — Director
4. Allende in His Maze (2014) — Director
5. The Widow of Montiel (1979) — Director
6. Dawson Isla 10 (2009) — Director
7. Sandino (1990) — Director
8. The Recourse to the Method (1978) — Director
9. La última luna (2005) — Director
10. The Promised Land (1973) — Director
11. Chile: A Genral Record (1986) — Director
12. Los náufragos (1994) — Director
13. Compañero Presidente (1971) — Director
14. Tierra del fuego (2000) — Director
15. You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said (1973) — Director
16. Palestine Chronicle (2001) — Director
17. Por la tierra ajena (1965) — Director
18. Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde (1999) — Director
19. El duelo (2004) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Santiago, Italia (2018) — Self - Filmmaker
2. Lorca: Death of a Poet (1987) — Fernando de los Ríos
3. Chile: A Genral Record (1986)
4. Mentiras verdaderas (2011) — Self (archive footage)
5. Érase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo… (1967)
6. Algo personal (2015) — Self
7. El Analfabeto (1965)
8. Ana (1965)
9. El Umbral del Dolor — Si mismo
10. Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema (1984) — Self
11. Chilevisión 60 (2020) — Self - Filmmaker and TV Director for Canal 9 (1963 - 1973)
12. Ciné regards (1978) — Self