Carlos Saura

Born: 1932-01-04

Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century, and his films won many international awards. Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film The Hunt won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions. By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain. His films employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for Cousin Angelica (1973) and Cría Cuervos (1975) in Cannes, and he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for Mama Turns 100. In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Blood Wedding, Carmen and El amor brujo, in which he combined dramatic content and flamenco dance forms. His work continued to be featured in worldwide competitions and earned numerous awards. He received two nominations for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for Carmen (1983) and Tango (1998). His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination. In the last two decades of the 20th century, Saura concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlos Saura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Little Apartment

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Released: 1959-06-15

Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have...

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Crítico

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Released: 2008-01-22

Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the...

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Searching for Ingmar Bergman

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Released: 2018-07-12

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar...

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Saura(s)

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Released: 2017-09-23

Carlos Saura, a living legend. Félix Viscarret, a director who wants to make a film portrait of...

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Rafael Azcona

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Released: 2010-09-30

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Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores

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Released: 2018-04-15

Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth...

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Goya, Carriere and the Ghost of Bunuel

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Released: 2022-09-21

It is with great emotion that we rediscover the magical langage of the late screenwriter...

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Miradas del cine español

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Released: 2024-03-08

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Aragón rodado

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Released: 2014-04-24

A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of...

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Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones

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Released: 2005-11-18

Documentary about the personal and professional life of Pablo G. del Amo. He is the most...

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Buñuel

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Released: 1989-01-01

Analysis of the work of Luis Buñuel in fifty mini chapters. A co-production of Arsenal Films,...

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The First Look

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Released: 2023-10-23

The foundation in Madrid of the Institute of Investigations and Cinematographic Experiences...

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In the Lost City

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Released: 2009-02-04

The city of Madrid as it appears in the Spanish films of the 1950s. A small tribute to all those...

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Portrait of Carlos Saura

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Released: 2004-01-01

A documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur Carlos Saura.

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Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire

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Released: 2016-09-16

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The Walls Can Talk

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Released: 2023-02-03

Las paredes hablan is Carlos Saura's peculiar take on the origin of art. The acclaimed and...

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Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy

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Released: 2013-01-08

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Donde acaba la memoria

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Released: 2022-12-02

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Carlos Saura Photographer - Journey of a Book

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Released: 2017-01-01

The film follows the Spanish film director as he publishes a book of his mostly unknown...

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

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First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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