Spanish film director and photographer (1932–2023)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Saura and the second or maternal family name is Atarés.
Carlos Saura
Saura in 2017
Born
Carlos Saura Atarés
(1932-01-04)4 January 1932
Huesca, Spain
Died
10 February 2023(2023-02-10) (aged 91)
Collado Mediano, Spain
Occupation(s)
Film director, screenwriter, photographer
Years active
1955–2023
Notable work
Los golfos
The Hunt
Peppermint Frappé
Honeycomb
Ana and the Wolves
Cousin Angelica
Cría Cuervos
Elisa, vida mía
Faster, Faster
Carmen
Tango
Goya in Bordeaux
Spouses
Adela Medrano
Mercedes Pérez
Eulàlia Ramon
(m. 2006)
Partner
Geraldine Chaplin (1967–1979)
Children
7
Relatives
Antonio Saura (brother)
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.[1] 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.
^""Carmen" machte ihn berühmt: Regisseur Carlos Saura ist tot". Frankfurter Allgemeine (in German). ISSN 0174-4909. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
CarlosSaura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he...
1974 and 1998. Teo Escamilla was a frequent collaborator with director CarlosSaura, working as the cinematographer on films such as Cría cuervos (1976,...
(1976) and Love on the Ground (1984). She was the partner of director CarlosSaura for 12 years until 1979, starring in his films Ana and the Wolves (1973)...
Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen and CarlosSaura. He has received three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for the...
Ediciones B. p. 143. ISBN 9788466610926. D'Lugo, Marvin (1991). The Films of CarlosSaura: The Practice of Seeing. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 188...
todo el mundo) is a 2021 musical drama film directed and written by CarlosSaura. A Mexico-Spain co-production, the cast is led by Ana de la Reguera,...
surrealist artist CarlosSaura, Spanish film director Enrique Saura, Spanish footballer Joan Saura, Spanish politician Santiago Saura Martínez de Toda...
including Francesc Rovira-Beleta, Luis Buñuel, José Luis Sáenz de Heredia, CarlosSaura, Pedro Almodóvar, William Friedkin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Claude Chabrol...
'Chariots of Fire', Dies at 86". Variety. Retrieved 26 October 2023. "Muere CarlosSaura, gigante del cine español". rtve.es (in Spanish). 10 February 2023. Archived...
(Spanish: Los zancos) is a 1984 Spanish drama film directed by CarlosSaura and written by Saura and Fernando Fernán-Gómez which stars Fernán-Gómez, Laura...
ISBN 978-0-292-76147-6. Retrieved 4 February 2017. Marvin D'Lugo (1991). The Films of CarlosSaura: The Practice of Seeing. Princeton University Press. p. 20. ISBN 0-691-00855-8...
Park of Buenos Aires. She participated in the film Iberia directed by CarlosSaura, with her own choreography (Albaicín) and another designed in collaboration...
including Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, François Truffaut, CarlosSaura, and Christopher Nolan. Ray intended to make various other films, including...
named Shane from her mother's previous relationship with film director CarlosSaura. Her paternal grandmother, Hilda Valderrama, was a Mapuche human rights...
3 sons, 5 daughters. Geraldine Chaplin (born 1944) Shane Saura (born 1974), by CarlosSaura Oona Castilla Chaplin (born 1986), by Patricio Castilla Michael...
Menkes Bardem 1996 Más allá del jardín, de Pedro Olea 1996 Taxi, de CarlosSaura 1997 En brazos de la mujer madura, de Manuel Lombardero 1998 Extraños...
Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, William Wyler, François Truffaut, John Huston, CarlosSaura, Isao Takahata, Oliver Stone Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Danny Boyle...
(Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy) Hunger (Henning Carlsen, Denmark) The Hunt (CarlosSaura, Spain) Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer, Czechoslovakia) The Man Who Had...
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