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person_profile-Carlos Saura

Carlos Saura Died at age: 91

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Carlos Saura

Date of Birth:

Jan 04, 1932

Country of birth:

Spain

Died:

Feb 10, 2023

Biography of

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.

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Carlos Saura

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Filmography of

Carlos Saura

Found 17 Movies in total

... 2023

The Walls Can Talk

Self ( Actor )

Writer

... 2023

... 2022

... 2022

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Himself - Filmmaker ( Actor )

... 2018

Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2018

Saura(s)

Self ( Actor )

... 2017

... 2017

... 2015

Aragón rodado

Self ( Actor )

... 2014

Rafael Azcona

Self ( Actor )

... 2010

Critic

Self ( Actor )

... 2008

... 2005

... 2004

Speaking of Buñuel

Self ( Actor )

... 2000

Buñuel

Self ( Actor )

... 1989

The Little Apartment

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1959