Pedro Chaskel

Biography

Pedro Chaskel, is one of the main precursors of the so-called New Chilean Cinema, as a director, cameraman and editor of numerous short and feature length films. An early emigrant from Germany at the age of seven, Chaskel became a Chilean national in 1952, and studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile from 1951 to 1954. That year, he became a founding member and animator of the Cine Club Universitario de la Federación de Estudiantes de Chile (FECH). A conspirator in the exhibition of films that did not come to Chile through the regular commercial circuit, Chaskel promoted, together with a group of contemplative people, a custom that was not very common in Chile: the cinema forum, or the debate organized after the film screenings that he did at the Central House of the Universidad de Chile. It was there that classics of German expressionism, Italian neo-realism and any film they had available were shown for the first time in Chile. In 1973, due to the military coup suffered by the government of President Salvador Allende, Chaskel is expelled from the Universidad de Chile by the military authorities, and travels abroad. Between 1974 and 1983 he settled in Cuba, where he wo…

Movies & TV Shows

1. Cantata de Chile (1976)
2. Nada pertenece a la memoria (2017) — Himself

Directed

1. Testimony (1969) — Director
2. It's Not Time to Cry (1971) — Director
3. Una foto recorre el mundo (1981) — Director
4. Venceremos (1970) — Director
5. Abortion (1965) — Director
6. Che, Today and Always (1983) — Director
7. Érase una vez (1965) — Director
8. Por la vida (1987) — Director
9. Neruda en el corazón (1993) — Director
10. Somos + (1985) — Director
11. ¿Qué es? (1980) — Director
12. Organilleros (1996) — Director
13. De vida y de muerte, testimonios de la Operación Cóndor (2015) — Director
14. Aquí vivieron (1964) — Director
15. Eyes Like My Dad (1979) — Director
16. Constructor Cada Día, Compañero (1982) — Director