Carlos Saura
Directing
Born: January 4, 1932 · Huesca, Aragón, Spain
Died: February 10, 2023 (aged 91)
Highest Rated
Biography
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.
Known for
Cria!
1976
Ay, Carmela!
1990
Carmen
1983
The Hunt
1966
Faster, Faster
1981
Anna and the Wolves
1973
Blood Wedding
1981
Peppermint Frappé
1967
The 7th Day
2004
Tango
1998
Mama Turns 100
1979
Cousin Angelica
1974
Photos (5)
Movies (6)
Self / Appearances (24)
Ciné regards
Self · 2 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 1 eps
Lo + plus
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Buñuel
Self
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
Self
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Self - Filmmaker
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
Critic
Self
Rafael Azcona
Self
Portrait of Carlos Saura
Self
The Walls Can Talk
Self
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
Self
Aragón rodado
Self
Saura(s)
Self
In the Lost City
Self
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Self
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
Self
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Self
Carlos Saura - Fotograf
Self
Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
Self (archive footage)
Goyasaurio
Self
Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
Self
24 horas en la vida de Querejeta
Self
Donde acaba la memoria
Self
Directing (54)
Argentina
Director
Salomé
Director
Cria!
Director
Cuentos de Borges
Director
Flamenco Flamenco
Director
Sevilles
Director
Faster, Faster
Director
Ay, Carmela!
Director
The King of Ads
Director
Flamenco
Director
Anna and the Wolves
Director
Carmen
Director
The 7th Day
Director
Marathon
Director
Peppermint Frappé
Director
Elisa, My Life
Director
Blood Wedding
Director
Goya in Bordeaux
Director
El Dorado
Director
Cuenca
Director
Stress Is Three
Director
Little Bird
Director
J: Beyond Flamenco
Director
Tango
Director
Honeycomb
Director
El amor brujo
Director
The Garden of Delights
Director
Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
Director
The Stilts
Director
Cousin Angelica
Director
Outrage
Director
The King of All the World
Director
The Dark Night of the Soul
Director
Antonieta
Director
Taxi
Director
Weeping for a Bandit
Director
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Director
The Hunt
Director
I, Don Giovanni
Director
Sinfonía de Aragón
Director
Sweet Hours
Director
La tarde del domingo
Director
The Delinquents
Director
Blindfolded Eyes
Director
Mama Turns 100
Director
The Walls Can Talk
Director
El sur
Director
Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander
Director
Fados
Director
Iberia
Director
El proceso
Assistant Director
Goya, May 3rd
Director
La llamada
Director
El pequeño Río Manzanares
Director
Writing (49)
Argentina
Writer
Salomé
Writer
Cria!
Screenplay
Cria!
Screenstory
Cuentos de Borges
Adaptation
Flamenco Flamenco
Writer
Faster, Faster
Writer
Ay, Carmela!
Screenplay
Flamenco
Writer
Anna and the Wolves
Writer
Carmen
Writer
Peppermint Frappé
Screenplay
Elisa, My Life
Screenplay
Elisa, My Life
Story
Blood Wedding
Writer
Goya in Bordeaux
Writer
El Dorado
Writer
Cuenca
Story
Cuenca
Screenplay
Stress Is Three
Screenplay
Stress Is Three
Story
Little Bird
Writer
J: Beyond Flamenco
Writer
Tango
Writer
Honeycomb
Idea
Honeycomb
Screenplay
El amor brujo
Writer
The Garden of Delights
Writer
Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
Screenplay
The Stilts
Writer
Cousin Angelica
Screenplay
Outrage
Writer
The King of All the World
Screenplay
Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy
Writer
The Dark Night of the Soul
Screenplay
Antonieta
Writer
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Screenplay
The Hunt
Screenplay
I, Don Giovanni
Writer
Sinfonía de Aragón
Writer
Sweet Hours
Writer
La tarde del domingo
Writer
The Delinquents
Screenplay
Blindfolded Eyes
Screenplay
Mama Turns 100
Writer
The Walls Can Talk
Writer
Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander
Writer
Fados
Writer
Muere una mujer
Writer
