The real-life story of the murder of a family becomes a verdict on the whole country in the debut of a Chilean master. Screening as part of the film programme Tashkent-1970. The Festival That Never Was.
Jackal of Nahueltoro
- Date:
- 19 Jul 2025,
19:00–20:50
- Age restrictions
- 18+
El Chacal de Nahueltoro
1969, Miguel Littín
Chile
95 minutes, Spanish with Russian subtitles
Starring: Nelson Villagra, Shenda Román, Marcelo Romo, Héctor Noguera
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Jorge Torres, a village drunkard, murders his common-law wife and her five children. He is sentenced to death, but before the sentence is carried out, the authorities, in a fit of pseudo-humanism, try to teach the condemned man literacy and to church him.
Shot from Jackal of Nahueltoro, 1969
With Raul Ruiz and Aldo Francia, Littin was one of the filmmakers who created the new wave of Chilean cinema in the late 1960s—a movement, of course, that was crushed with the overthrow of the Allende government.
— Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader
The film is based on real events, but it is far from realistic. It paints an almost surreal, eerie social landscape, making for a truly Kafkaesque spectacle.
