Plot

The real story about an illiterate murderer, educated in prison, where he reflects on his actions days before he died.

In 1960, José del Carmen Valenzuela Torres, from the small town of Nahueltoro in Chile, brutally murdered Rosa Rivas Acuña and her five children. This classic film of the Latin American cinema is based on testimonies provided by the murderer himself while he was being prosecuted and the journalists who interviewed him before his sentence was executed. Thirty two months after the massacre at age 23 and after learning how to read and write, "The Jackal of Nahueltoro" faced a firing squad.—Canal 13

The "Jackal of Nahueltoro" is a Chilean picture delivered in 1969, produced by Universidad de Chile, written and directed by Miguel Littin. Based in a true story, is the recreation of a terrible crime when a peasant named Jorge Valenzuela killed a peasant woman and her 5 little children. Due to the brutality of the crime, the killer was nicknamed the Jackal. This movie received the OCIC Award 1970 in the International Cinema Festival of Berlin.