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Miguel Littín Born 9 August 1942
Palmilla, ChileSpouse Elizabeth Menz Children Cristina, Miguel and Catalina Miguel Ernesto Littín Cucumides (9 August 1942 in Palmilla) is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist. He was born to a Palestinian father, Hernán Littin and a Greek mother, Cristina Cucumides.
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.
Littín was exiled in México shortly after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a military coup, which ousted the democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973.
In México he did several films. Letters from Marusia, based on a miners strike in Chile. 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 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.
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 and also show the country that he loved.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 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 Medal at the Moscow International Film Festival.
Filmography
Year Title 1969 El Chacal de Nahueltoro (Jackal of Nahueltoro) 1971 Compañero Presidente (Documentary) 1973 La Tierra Prometida (The Promised Land) 1974 Actas de Marusia (Letters from Marusia) 1978 El Recurso del método (Long Live the President) 1980 La Viuda de Montiel (The Widow of Montiel) 1981 Alsino y el Condor (Alsino and the Condor) 1986 Acta General de Chile (Documentary) 1989 Sandino 1994 Los náufragos 2000 Tierra del Fuego 2002 Los Caminos de la Ira; Cronicas Palestinas (Palestinian Chronicles)(Documentary) 2002 El Abanderado 2005 La Ultima Luna (The Last Moon) 2009 Dawson, Isla 10 References
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Categories:- 1942 births
- Living people
- People from Colchagua Province
- Chilean people of Palestinian descent
- Chilean film directors
- Chilean screenwriters
- Chilean people of Greek descent
- Chilean people stubs
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