Raúl Ruiz

Raúl Ruiz was born on 25 July 1941 in Puerto Montt; Memoria Chilena describes him as the son of a merchant navy sailor. At a very young age he wrote a hundred or so plays, abandoned his studies and, in 1964, attended a film school in Argentina. After the coup d'état of 1973 he went into exile with his wife, Valeria Sarmiento, and settled in Paris. In all, according to the sources, he directed from eighty to more than a hundred films, received the national arts prize in 1997 and died in Paris on 19 August 2011.

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• CinemaThree Sad TigersTres tristes tigresRaúl Ruiz · 1968Cinema