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Letters from Marusia (Spanish: Actas de Marusia) is a 1975 Mexican film directed by Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littín. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [1] It was also entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. [2] The film is based on a Patricio Manns novel (1974) inspired by the Marusia massacre of 1925.
Based on a True Story: The Marusia massacre, in which some five hundred miners, women, and children were murdered by the Chilean army. For unclear reasons the film changed the date of the massacre to 1907 when it actually happened in 1925.
Jun 14, 2023 · Littin made a name for himself in Chile for his controversial true crime film, El Chacal de Nahueltoro, but while in exile he created some of the best work of his career including two...
Letters from Marusia: Directed by Miguel Littin. With Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregón, Eduardo López Rojas. It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.
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- Drama, History
- Miguel Littin
- 1985-07-11
Especially a film such as Letters from Marusia, based on a real event. Gian Maria Volenté is the lead, but the film is about the town, the workers, the women who live with the workers, and their children, not any one person. And about the military that comes at the behest of the mine owner to slaughter them for striking.
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- P. C. Arturo Feliú, Conacine
- Miguel Littín
The film is based on a Patricio Manns novel (1974) inspired by the Marusia massacre of 1925. Plot. The film portrays the harsh reality of life during Chile's "Nitrate Era" (1880-1929) for the working class, where efforts to form workers' unions were violently suppressed. Set in a mining town in northern Chile, the Marusia massacre of 1925 unfolds.
Letters from Marusia (Spanish: Actas de Marusia) is a 1975 Mexican film directed by Chilean filmmaker Miguel Littín. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [1] It was also entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. [2] The film is based on a Patricio Manns novel (1974) inspired by the Marusia massacre of 1925.
