Jackal of Nahueltoro

Jackal of Nahueltoro
Jackal of Nahueltoro
	Chilean DVD cover
Directed by	Miguel Littín
Written by	Miguel Littín
Produced by	Héctor Noguera; Isidora Portales
Starring	Nelson Villagra
Cinematography	Héctor Ríos
Edited by	Pedro Chaskel
Release date	June 1969;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Chile
Language	Spanish

Jackal of Nahueltoro (Spanish: El Chacal de Nahueltoro) is a 1969 Chilean drama film directed by Miguel Littín, based on the true story of Jorge Valenzuela Torres, a poor farmer who, during a drunken rampage in 1960, murdered his partner and five of her children.

It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival, winning the OCIC prize.^[1] It is considered by some to be the best Chilean film of all time because it questions the morality of the death penalty and the social hypocrisy of trying to rehabilitate a man only to later execute him.^[2]

Plot

Jorge del Carmen Valenzuela Torres is a farmer who suffers from abuse and exploitation from childhood, leading to alcoholism. As an adult, he receives help from a poor woman named Rosa Rivas, who has five children from a previous marriage. Eventually, he marries her. However, in August 1960, while under the influence of alcohol, he gets into a fight with her and ends up murdering her and all of her children. He is arrested the following month and spends 32 months in prison, during which he learns to read and write and converts to Catholicism. He is ultimately sentenced to execution by firing squad, which is carried out in 1963.

Cast

Nelson Villagra as Jorge Valenzuela
Shenda Román as Rosa Rivas
Héctor Noguera as Chaplain
Luis Alarcón as the Judge
Rafael Benavente as a prison guard
Roberto Navarrete
Marcelo Romo as Reporter
Rubén Sotoconil as Corporal Campos
Pedro Villagra

References

^ "IMDB.com: Awards for Jackal of Nahueltoro". imdb.com. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
^ Labra, Pedro (15 August 2003). "¿El mejor filme chileno de todos los tiempos? El chacal de Nahueltoro". Mabuse (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 August 2003. Retrieved 21 January 2021.

External links

Jackal of Nahueltoro at IMDb

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[imdb-1] "IMDB.com: Awards for Jackal of Nahueltoro". imdb.com. Retrieved 8 March 2010.

[2] Labra, Pedro (15 August 2003). "¿El mejor filme chileno de todos los tiempos? El chacal de Nahueltoro". Mabuse (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 15 August 2003. Retrieved 21 January 2021.

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