Pedro Chaskel
Editing
Born 1932-08-02
Germany
45 credits
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Pedro Chaskel, is one of the main precursors of the so-called New Chilean Cinema, as a director, cameraman and editor of numerous short and feature length films.
An early emigrant from Germany at the age of seven, Chaskel became a Chilean national in 1952, and studied architecture at the Universidad de Chile from 1951 to 1954.
That year, he became a founding member and animator of the Cine Club Universitario de la Federación de Estudiantes de Chile (FECH). A conspirator in the exhibition of films that did not come to Chile through the regular commercial circuit, Chaskel promoted, together with a group of contemplative people, a custom that was not very common in Chile: the cinema forum, or the debate organized after the film screenings that he did at the Central House of the Universidad de Chile. It was there that classics of German expressionism, Italian neo-realism and any film they had available were shown for the first time in Chile.
In 1973, due to the military coup suffered by the government of President Salvador Allende, Chaskel is expelled from the Universidad de Chile by the military authorities, and travels abroad.
Between 1974 and 1983 he settled in Cuba, where he worked as an editor at the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry (ICAIC), and since 1979, as a director and filmmaker for the same institute.
In 1983, he returns to Chile. He works in film and video as an independent professional, working as an editor and director of documentaries.
From 1997 to date, he has taught film at many Chilean universities.
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Filmography
Other credits
36 credits
Eyes Like My Dad
Parkinsonismo y cirugía
¿Y... si fuera cierto?
Angelito
The Battle of Chile: Part I
Testimony
Aquí vivieron
Abortion
Venceremos
Cantata de Chile
Valdivia 1960, El Gran Terremoto
The Battle of Chile: Part III
The Battle of Chile: Part II
Recado de Chile
Lizards' Tales
¿Qué es?
Imágenes de Un Primero de Mayo
Day of the Organ Grinders
Descomedidos y chascones
Tres miradas a la calle
Imágenes Antárticas
The Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People
Érase una vez
Jackal of Nahueltoro
Entre ponerle y no ponerle...
Por la vida
Perla
La Revolución de los Pingüinos
Road Signs
Deja que los perros ladren
El Analfabeto
Yo tenía un camarada
De vida y de muerte, testimonios de la Operación Cóndor
Érase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo…
Buscando Isla de Pascua, la película perdida
Ana
Directing
16 credits
Eyes Like My Dad
It's Not Time to Cry
Testimony
Che, Today and Always
Constructor Cada Día, Compañero
Aquí vivieron
Abortion
Venceremos
Organilleros
¿Qué es?
Somos +
Érase una vez
Por la vida
Una foto recorre el mundo
Neruda en el corazón
De vida y de muerte, testimonios de la Operación Cóndor
Writing
9 credits
Eyes Like My Dad
The Battle of Chile: Part I
Testimony
Che, Today and Always
Constructor Cada Día, Compañero
Abortion
The Battle of Chile: Part II
The Battle of Chile: The Struggle of an Unarmed People
Por la vida
Acting
4 credits
Producing
2 credits
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