Helvio Soto
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1930-02-21 (71 years old)
Deathday
2001-11-29
Place of Birth
Santiago de Chile, Chile
Also known As
Helvio Soto Soto
Helvio Soto
Biography
Helvio Soto Soto was born in Santiago on February 21, 1930. He was a Chilean filmmaker, considered one of the most important filmmakers of the mid-1960s and 1970s. He went to law school, a career he never practiced. At a very young age, and hearing the call of communications, he emigrated from Chile, achieving some positions as assistant in films shot in Argentina and working in radio in Ecuador. He wrote some books such as Semana a semana, which had regular critical success. By the time it returns to Chile, the cinema begins to present a boom never seen before: the entry of 16 mm cameras plus the socio-political conceptions give a renovati...
Acting
1988
as Family Member
Production
1964
as Executive Producer
1967
as Director
1967
as Screenplay
1975
as Director
1965
as Director
1965
as Screenplay
1965
as Animation
1984
as Director
1971
as Director
1971
as Screenplay
1973
1969
as Director
1968
as Director
1972
as Producer
1964
as Director
1964
as Writer
1975
as Writer
1981
as Director
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as Director
1969
as Screenplay
1968
as Screenplay
1967
as Director
1973
as Screenplay
1965
as Director
1965
as Writer
1966
as Producer
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