Miguel Littín
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 9, 1942, Palmilla, O'Higgins, Chile
- Movies
- 25
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.
Upcoming Miguel Littín Movies
El Umbral del Dolor
Release date TBA
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2018 | Santiago, Italia | Self - Filmmaker |
| 1986 | Chile: A Genral Record | |
| 1984 | Claves, 4: Memories of Cuban cinema | Self |
| 1967 | Érase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo… | |
| 1965 | El Analfabeto | |
| 1965 | Ana |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2014 | Allende in His Maze | Director, Writer |
| 2009 | Dawson Isla 10 | Director, Screenplay |
| 2005 | La última luna | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | El duelo | Director, Writer |
| 2001 | Palestine Chronicle | Director |
| 2000 | Tierra del fuego | Director |
| 1999 | Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde | Director, Writer |
| 1994 | Los náufragos | Director, Screenplay |
| 1990 | Sandino | Director, Screenplay |
| 1986 | Chile: A Genral Record | Director, Writer |
| 1982 | Alsino and the Condor | Writer, Director |
| 1979 | The Widow of Montiel | Director, Writer |
| 1978 | The Recourse to the Method | Director, Writer |
| 1975 | Letters from Marusia | Writer, Director |
| 1973 | You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said | Director |
| 1973 | The Promised Land | Director, Screenplay |
| 1971 | Compañero Presidente | Director |
| 1970 | Jackal of Nahueltoro | Writer, Director |
| 1965 | Por la tierra ajena | Screenplay, Director |
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