Miguel Littín

Miguel Littín was born in Palmilla on 9 August 1942; Memoria Chilena describes him as a descendant of Arab and Greek immigrants and trained in theatre at the University of Chile. Appointed head of Chile Films under Allende, he went into exile in Mexico after the coup d'état of 1973, then in Spain. In 1985 he returned secretly to Chile to film the dictatorship there. Two of his films have been nominated for the Oscar; he was mayor of Palmilla in the nineties and a member of the Constitutional Council in 2023.

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• CinemaThe Jackal of NahueltoroEl chacal de NahueltoroMiguel Littín · 1969Cinema