Carlos Saura
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.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
January 4, 1932Deathday
February 10, 2023Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
76Place of birth
Huesca, Aragón, SpainAlso known as
카를로스 사우라Cast credits
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
SelfIn the Lost City
SelfAntonio Gades, la ética de la danza
SelfRafael Azcona
SelfThe Little Apartment
(uncredited)Saura(s)
SelfSearching for Ingmar Bergman
Himself - FilmmakerCarlos Saura's FlamencoHoy
InszenierungCrítico
SelfBuñuel
SelfNavajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
Self (archive footage)Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire
Carlos SauraEduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
SelfCarlos Saura Photographer - Journey of a Book
SelfPortrait of Carlos Saura
SelfAragón rodado
SelfThe Walls Can Talk
SelfDonde acaba la memoria
SelfGoya, Carriere and the Ghost of Bunuel
SelfThe First Look
Crew credits
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Director, ScreenplayFados
Director, Writer, Production DesignFlamenco
Director, WriterThe 7th Day
DirectorAy, Carmela!
Director, ScreenplayEl amor brujo
Director, WriterCarmen
Director, Writer, ChoreographerBlood Wedding
Director, WriterAntonieta
Director, WriterOutrage
Director, WriterTango
Director, WriterFaster, Faster
Director, WriterCria!
Director, Screenplay, ScreenstoryEl Dorado
Director, WriterCousin Angelica
Director, ScreenplayFlamenco Flamenco
DirectorTaxi
DirectorSevilles
DirectorI, Don Giovanni
Director, WriterIberia
DirectorSalomé
Director, Writer, Set Designer