
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.

Cría cuervos

Fados

Flamenco Flamenco

Las paredes hablan

Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander

La caza

El amor brujo

Ana y los lobos

¡Ay, Carmela!

血の婚礼

El 7º día

Carmen

Tango, no me dejes nunca

Peppermint frappé

Elisa, vida mía

Los zancos

Cuenca

Deprisa, deprisa

La prima Angélica

サロメ

Mamá cumple 100 años

Los golfos

El Rey de todo el mundo

El Dorado

Pajarico

Flamenco

La Madriguera

Rosa Rosae. La guerra civil

La tarde del domingo

El jardín de las delicias

Goya en Burdeos

Stress-es tres-tres

¡Dispara!

Los ojos vendados

Iberia

Zonda: folclore argentino

Dulces horas

Sevillanas

Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón

Taxi

Llanto por un bandido

Jota, de Saura

Antonieta

La noche oscura

Goya 3 de mayo

Sinfonía de Aragón

Io, Don Giovanni

Marathon

The King of Ads

El pequeño Río Manzanares

El sur

Cuentos de Borges

Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy

Crítico

L'Ombre de Goya

Las paredes hablan

Rafael Azcona

El pisito

Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones

Retrato de Carlos Saura

Donde acaba la memoria

Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza

24 horas en la vida de Querejeta

Saura(s)

Auf der Suche nach Ingmar Bergman

Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

A propósito de Buñuel

Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin

En la ciudad perdida

Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí

El proceso

Aragón rodado

Carlos Saura - Fotograf

Miradas del cine español

Buñuel

Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

Goyasaurio

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