Carlos Saura
(Carlos Saura Atarés; Huesca, 1932) Spanish film director.His hazardous childhood during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), which led him to take refuge with his family in the republican areas of Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia, marked and profoundly influenced him throughout his future film career.After the conflict, he returned to his hometown and two years later, in 1941, he moved to Madrid to study high school and start his first jobs as a photographer, with which he participated in various exhibitions.
Carlos Saura
In 1952 he joined the Institute for Cinematographic Research and Experiences (IIEC), where he graduated with the title of director in 1957 with the practice Sunday afternoon .A year later, this institution hired him as a professor of scenic practices.His debut on the screen was as a screenwriter and director of Los golfos (1957), a first approach to Spanish marginal youth that, when selected by the Cannes Film Festival (France), aroused the ire of Franco's censorship.
During the contest he met the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, who encouraged him to conclude his unfinished masterpiece Simón del Desierto and with whom he struck up a deep and respectful friendship.The result of it was Buñuel's collaboration in the role (massacred by censorship) of the executioner in the opening scenes of Cry for a Bandit (1964), a romantic biography of the Andalusian bandit José María el Tempranillo.
Carlos Saura then directed Antonieta (1982) in Mexico and left the Spanish studios again to shoot in Costa Rica, with producer Andrés Vicente Gómez, the ambitious blockbuster El Dorado (1987), which narrated the journey down the Amazon River of the Spanish captain Lope de Aguirre.Without abandoning national sources, a figure from the Spanish Golden Age, the mystical poet San Juan de la Cruz, inspired The Dark Night (1989).
The following year, Carlos Saura broke a national record by receiving thirteen Goya Awards from the Spanish Academy for his adaptation of a dramatic comedy by José Luis Sanchís Sinisterra, ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990).The film was also awarded at the Montreal Festival, and the performance of Carmen Maura, in the role of Carmen, with the Europa Prize.Also in 1990 he shot, for Televisión Española, a version of the short story El Sur , by Jorge Luis Borges.After the unsuccessful commercial career of Marathon (1992), shot with a large budget during the Barcelona Olympic Games, his approaches to police films had better luck, with Shoot! (1993) and Taxi (1996).
Since then, except for the adaptation of his own novel, Pajarico (1997), and the notable Goya en Bordeaux (1999), in which the Actor Paco Rabal gave life to an elderly Francisco de Goya and exiled in France, Carlos Saura dedicated himself to brilliant experiences in musical cinema with Latin roots, with Sevillanas (1992), Flamenco (1995), Tango (1998)-shot in Argentina-and Salomé (2002).The return to the visceral and violent Spain of its beginnings took place with El séptimo día (2004), inspired by the bloody confrontations in Puerto Hurraco (Badajoz), which earned him the award for the best director of the Festival from Montreal.
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