La Última Luna

In his final prizewinning production, Miguel Littin penetrates  his Palestinian roots following his grand parents’ late emigration to Chile at the start of the last century. Inspired by one particular story told to him at a young age, he tries to give another viewpoint of the clash between Palestinians and Israelis – “I am against [...]

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Los Náufragos

Tras casi 20 años de exilio, con el regreso de la democracia a Chile, Miguel Littin volvió oficialmente a su país. Previamente había entrado clandestinamente en 1985 para filmar una crónica de la dictadura, osadía que inspiro el libro de Gabriel García Marquéz ‘Aventura de Miguel Littin clandestino en Chile’. En ‘Los Náufragos’ reflejó el [...]

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Tierra del Fuego

The Romanian engineer Julius Popper has possession of the inhospitable region of the Land of the Fire, in Patagonia. Popper has set out to accomplish an ambitious mission: the extraction of gold with a system he has invented. In his determination there are a series of adventurers who join him from all over the world [...]

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La tierra prometida

After the International success of ‘El chacal de Nahueltoro’, Salvador Allende was named to Miguel Littin director of Chile Films. In addition to some full-length films, it initiated the production of ‘The engaged ground’, suggestion of the first socialistic Chilean Government established in 1932 and was demolished a few days later. Its protection was almost [...]

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El chacal de Nahueltoro

Miguel Littin’s directing début and one of the first chilean film productions of international renown. Based on a true story occurred in 1960, it relates the story of an illiterate peasant who killed a woman and her 5 daughters. Littin based all the dialogues on the declarations made by the murderer during the trial and [...]

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