Miguel Littín Information & Miguel Littín Links at HealthHaven.com

Miguel Ernesto Littín Cucumides (9 August 1942 in Palmilla) is a Chilean film director and screenwriter. He was born to a Palestinian father and a Greek mother.

Littín was exiled to Mexico shortly after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a violent military coup which ousted the democratically elected president Salvador Allende, a socialist, on 11 September 1973.

Littín was mayor of Palmilla in 1992-94 and re-elected for the period 1996-2000.

Littín was made the subject of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez's book Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín.

[edit] Filmography

Dawson Isla 10, Fiction (Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, 2009)
La Ultima Luna (The Last Moon), Fiction (Chile, 2005)
El Abanderado, Fiction (Chile, 2002)
Los Caminos de la Ira; Cronicas Palestinas, Documentary (Chile, 2000)
Tierra del Fuego, Fiction (Chile, 2000)
Los náufragos, ? (Chile, 1994)
Sandino, Fiction (Nicaragua, Spain, 1989)
Acta General de Chile, Documentary (Chile, 1986)
Alsino y el Condor (Alsino and the Condor), Fiction (Nicaragua, México, Cuba, 1981)
La Viuda de Montiel (The Widow of Montiel), Fiction (México, 1980)
El Recurso del método (Long Live the President), Fiction (México, France, Cuba, 1978)
Actas de Marusia (Letters from Marusia), Fiction (México, 1976)
La Tierra Prometida (The Promised Land), Fiction (Chile, 1973)
El Chacal de Nahueltoro (The Jackal of Nahueltoro), Fiction (Chile, 1968)

This Chilean biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.