Carlos Saura
Directing
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
Directing55
movieThe Walls Can Talk
2023
Director
movieGoya, May 3rd
2021
Director
movieJ: Beyond Flamenco
2016
Director
movieArgentina
2015
Director
movieFlamenco Flamenco
2010
Director
movieI, Don Giovanni
2009
Director
movieSinfonía de Aragón
2008
Director
movieFados
2007
Director
movieIberia
2005
Director
movieThe 7th Day
2004
Director
movieSalomé
2002
Director
movieGoya in Bordeaux
1999
Director
movieTango
1998
Director
movieLittle Bird
1997
Director
movieTaxi
1996
Director
movieFlamenco
1995
Director
movieOutrage
1993
Director
tvCuentos de Borges
1993
Director
movieMarathon
1993
Director
movieEl sur
1992
Director
movieSevilles
1992
Director
movieThe King of Ads
1991
Director
movieAy, Carmela!
1990
Director
movieEl Dorado
1988
Director
movieEl amor brujo
1986
Director
movieThe Stilts
1984
Director
movieCarmen
1983
Director
movieAntonieta
1982
Director
movieSweet Hours
1982
Director
movieFaster, Faster
1981
Director
movieBlood Wedding
1981
Director
movieMama Turns 100
1979
Director
movieBlindfolded Eyes
1978
Director
movieElisa, My Life
1977
Director
movieCria!
1976
Director
movieCousin Angelica
1974
Director
movieAnna and the Wolves
1973
Director
movieThe Garden of Delights
1970
Director
movieHoneycomb
1969
Director
movieStress Is Three
1968
Director
moviePeppermint Frappé
1967
Director
movieThe Hunt
1966
Director
movieWeeping for a Bandit
1964
Director
movieThe Delinquents
1960
Director
movieCuenca
1958
Director
movieLa tarde del domingo
1957
Director
movieEl proceso
1955
Assistant Director
Before Breakfast
1955
Assistant Director
movieLa llamada
1955
Director
Writing44
movieThe King of All the World
2021
Screenplay
movieArgentina
2015
Writer
movieI, Don Giovanni
2009
Writer
movieFados
2007
Writer
movieSalomé
2002
Writer
movieBunuel and King Solomon's Table
2001
Screenplay
movieTango
1998
Writer
movieLittle Bird
1997
Writer
movieFlamenco
1995
Writer
movieOutrage
1993
Writer
tvCuentos de Borges
1993
Adaptation
movieAy, Carmela!
1990
Screenplay
movieThe Dark Night of the Soul
1989
Screenplay
movieEl Dorado
1988
Writer
movieEl amor brujo
1986
Writer
movieThe Stilts
1984
Writer
movieCarmen
1983
Writer
movieAntonieta
1982
Writer
movieSweet Hours
1982
Writer
movieFaster, Faster
1981
Writer
movieBlood Wedding
1981
Writer
movieMama Turns 100
1979
Writer
movieBlindfolded Eyes
1978
Screenplay
movieElisa, My Life
1977
Screenplay, Story
movieCria!
1976
Screenplay, Screenstory
movieCousin Angelica
1974
Screenplay
movieHoneycomb
1969
Idea, Screenplay
movieStress Is Three
1968
Screenplay, Story
moviePeppermint Frappé
1967
Screenplay
movieThe Hunt
1966
Screenplay
movieMuere una mujer
1964
Writer
movieThe Delinquents
1960
Screenplay
movieCuenca
1958
Story, Screenplay
Acting30
movieSearching for Ingmar Bergman
2018
Self - Filmmaker
movieNavajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
2018
Self (archive footage)
movieMatilde Coral, acariciando el aire
2016
Carlos Saura
movieCarlos Saura's FlamencoHoy
2013
Inszenierung
movieCritic
2008
Self
tvLo + plus
1995
Self - Guest
movieBuñuel
1989
Self
movieThe Little Apartment
1959
(uncredited)
Art2
movieFados
2007
Production Design
movieSalomé
2002
Set Designer
Camera2
Before Breakfast
1955
Director of Photography
movieLetter of Sanabria
1955
Assistant Camera
Crew2
movieCarmen
1983
Choreographer
movieCuenca
1958
Cinematography