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 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.
Filmography
all 28
Movies 23
Director 19
TV Shows 5
self 4
Chilevisión 60 (2020)
Santiago, Italia (2018)
Algo personal (2015)
Allende en su laberinto (2014)
Mentiras verdaderas (2011)
Dawson Isla 10 (2009)
La última luna (2005)
El duelo (2004)
La vida es una lotería (2002)
Tierra del fuego (2000)
Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde (1999)
Los náufragos (1994)
Sandino (1990)
Lorca: Death of a Poet (1987)
Chile: A Genral Record (1986)
Alsino and the Condor (1982)
La viuda de Montiel (1979)
The Recourse to the Method (1978)
Letters from Marusia (1975)
You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said (1973)
The Promised Land (1973)
Compañero Presidente (1971)
Jackal of Nahueltoro (1970)
Érase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo… (1967)
El Analfabeto (1965)
Por la tierra ajena (1965)
Ana (1965)
Yo tenía un camarada (1964)
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GenderMale
Birthday1942-08-09 (81 years old)
Birth NameMiguel Littin Cucumides
Birth PlacePalmilla, Chile
CitizenshipsChile
Also Known AsMiguel Ernesto Littín Cucumides, 米盖尔·里廷
AwardsAriel Award for Best Screenplay, Ariel Award for Best Direction, Ariel Award for Best Picture
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