Miguel Littín

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1942-08-09 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Palmilla, O'Higgins, Chile

Also Known As Miguel Ernesto Littín Cucumides, 米盖尔·里廷

Miguel Littín

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.

Known For

Director

2014
2009
Dawson Isla 10

as Director

2005
La última luna

as Director

2004
El duelo

as Director

2000
Tierra del fuego

as Director

1994
Los náufragos

as Director

1990
Sandino

as Director

1986
1982
1979
1975
1973
The Promised Land

as Director

1971
1970
1965
1964
Yo tenía un camarada

as Assistant Director

Writer

2014
2009
Dawson Isla 10

as Screenplay

2005
La última luna

as Writer

2004
El duelo

as Writer

1994
Los náufragos

as Screenplay

1990
Sandino

as Screenplay

1982
1979
1975
1973
The Promised Land

as Screenplay

1970
1965
Por la tierra ajena

as Screenplay

Actor

2020
Chilevisión 60

as Self - Filmmaker and TV Director for Canal 9 (1963 - 1973)

2018
Santiago, Italia

as Self - Filmmaker

2015
2011
Mentiras verdaderas

as Self (archive footage)

1987
Lorca: Death of a Poet

as Fernando de los Ríos

1965

Producer

2009
Dawson Isla 10

as Executive Producer

2005
La última luna

as Executive Producer