Actas de Marusia

This Mexican film re-creates a dark chapter in the history of Chile. The scene is a small Chilean saltpetre mining town in 1907. Suffering under the despotic rule of the British mine owners, the workers stage a revolt. The government's solution is to utterly destroy the town rather than allow the rebellion to spread. Director Miguel Littin adapted Letters from Marusia from a novel by Patricio Manns, which in turn was based on eyewitness accounts of the 1907 massacre.


Nominated for the Golden palm and Oscar.


Director: Miguel Littin
Writers: Miguel Littin, Patricio Manns
Starring: Armando Acosta, Gian Maria Volonté, Arturo Beristáin, Diana Bracho,
Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Salvador Sanchez, Claudio Obregon,
Patricio Castillo, Domingo Soto
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Year: 1976
Language: Spanish
Runtime: 110 min
Video: AVI, SATRip, 576x432, XviD MPEG-4, 1656 kbps
Audio: 44100 Hz, 2(stereo), MP3, 128 kbps