Miguel Littin
Miguel Ernesto Littin Cucumides (born 9 August 1942) is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist.
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Miguel Littin

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- Born
- 1942. · Palmilla.
- Nationality
- Chile.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, film director, film producer, actor and writer.
- Education
- University of Chile.
- Honours
- Ariel Award for Best Picture, Ariel Award for Best Direction, Ariel Award for Best Screenplay and Commander of the Order of the Aztec Eagle.
- Languages
- Spanish.
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Miguel Ernesto Littin Cucumides (born 9 August 1942) is a Chilean film director, screenwriter, film producer and novelist.
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Miguel Littin (born 1942) is an actor, film director and film producer, among other activities, of Chilean nationality. The actor was born in Palmilla.
Miguel Littin was educated at University of Chile. The actor held the positions of council member and mayor.
Languages used include Spanish. Honours include Ariel Award for Best Direction, Ariel Award for Best Picture and Ariel Award for Best Screenplay, among others.
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Early life
Early life
Miguel Littin studied at University of Chile. The recorded working language is Spanish. Positions recorded include mayor and council member. Distinctions recorded are Ariel Award for Best Picture, Ariel Award for Best Direction, Ariel Award for Best Screenplay and Commander of the Order of the Aztec Eagle.
Miguel Ernesto Littin Cucumides was born in Palmilla, Colchagua, Chile. He is half-Palestinian half-Greek.
Career
Career
Miguel Littin directed El Chacal de Nahueltoro (1969), becoming a major figure of the New Latin American Cinema. Littin was exiled in Mexico shortly after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a military coup, which ousted President Salvador Allende, on September 11, 1973. His 1973 film The Promised Land was entered into the Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. In Mexico, 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 International Feature Film. Winner of 9 Ariel awards, including Best Director, Best Script, and Best Film from the Mexican Film Academy. The Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté played the lead character, and Mikis Theodorakis composed the original music for the film. El Recurso del Método (Long Live the President) based on Alejo Carpentier's novel El Recurso del método (Reasons of State); a co-production with Mexico, France and Cuba. Cannes Film Festival Official Competition. Produced by Costa Gavras and Michéle Ray. The Widow of Montiel, with Geraldine Chaplin, based on a Gabriel García Márquez short story. Berlin Film Festival Official Competition. He then went to Nicaragua to make Alsino and the Condor, based on the novel Alsino by Pedro Prado. Dean Stockwell played a supporting character. The film won multiple awards around the globe and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. In 1981, he was a member of the jury at the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. After moving to Spain in 1984, Littin decided to enter Chile clandestinely to make a documentary, "Acta General de Chile" that showed the condition of the country under the Pinochet regime. It was made the subject of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez's book Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin. This book chronicles his incognito escapades in Chile as he exposes the regime. His four-hour Documentary, "Acta General de Chile," was a big success around the world and won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, Fipresci, Spacio Libre del Autore, and the Golden Medal of the Italian Senate. In 1989-90, he made "Sandino" a spectacular European coproduction with Kris Kristofferson, Dean Stockwell, Angela Molina, and Joaquin de Almeida in the lead characters. He eventually returned to Chile where he continued to make films, among them Tierra del Fuego, based on the adventures of explorer Julius Popper; Cannes Film Festival Official Selection and Dawson, Isla 10, about a group of political prisoners sent to Dawson's Island during Pinochet's regime. Rome Film Festival Official Competition. Miguel Littin was the mayor of his hometown in the central valley, Palmilla, from 1992 to 1994 and was 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 Seattle Film Festival, L.A. Film Festival,27th Moscow International Film Festival.
Filmography
Filmography
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) 1990: 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 2014: Allende en su Laberinto (Allende in his Maze)

La presidenta chilena Michelle Bachelet (de espaldas, encabezando la mesa) durante el encuentro con directores y guionistas de cine agrupados en la Asociación Gremial de Guionistas de Chile celebrado en noviembre de 2013. Al lado derecho, se puede reconocer a Alicia Scherson (1ª), Miguel Littín (2º) y a Nicolás Acuña (3º); al otro extremo de la mesa, frente a Bachelet, Tatiana Gaviola. “La cultur
Michelle Bachelet from Santiago, Chile · Asociación Gremial de Guionistas de Chile – 07/11/2013 Uploaded by Diego Grez

El director de cine chileno Miguel Littín durante la presentación de la película Los náufragos en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña del Mar, 1994
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- 1.Guirguis, Laure. Dis:Locating Palestine – Enacting Community: Chilestino Contemporary Art and Cinema. Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies. 13. 1. 30–53. 2026. 2169-4435.
- 2.8th Moscow International Film Festival (1973). MIFF.
- 3.The 48th Academy Awards (1976) Nominees and Winners. oscars.org.
- 4.12th Moscow International Film Festival (1981). MIFF.
- 5.The 55th Academy Awards (1983) Nominees and Winners. oscars.org.
- 6.13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983). MIFF.
- 7.27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005). MIFF.
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