Director
Miguel Littín
August 9, 1942 · Palmilla, O'Higgins, Chile
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.
Often works with
Nelson Villagra
6 titles together
Jackal of Nahueltoro, The Widow of Montiel, The Recourse to the Method
Luis Alarcón
4 titles together
Jackal of Nahueltoro, Los náufragos, Tierra del fuego
Ernesto Gómez Cruz
4 titles together
Letters from Marusia, The Widow of Montiel, Sandino
Salvador Allende
3 titles together
Chile: A Genral Record, Compañero Presidente, You Speak of Chile: What Allende Said
Marcelo Romo
2 titles together
Jackal of Nahueltoro, Los náufragos
Rubén Sotoconil
2 titles together
Jackal of Nahueltoro, The Promised Land
Full filmography · 20
El Umbral del Dolor
as Si mismo
Upcoming
Allende in His Maze
Director and Writer
2014
Dawson Isla 10
Director
2009
La última luna
Director and Writer
2005
Palestine Chronicle
Director
2001
Tierra del fuego
Director
2000
Cinco marineros y un ataúd verde
Director and Writer
1999
Los náufragos
Director
1994
Sandino
Director
1990
Chile: A Genral Record
cast and Director and Writer
1986
The Widow of Montiel
Director and Writer
1979
The Recourse to the Method
Director and Writer
1978