José Luis Borau

Biography

Spanish film director and producer, born in Zaragoza. He studied law in his hometown and debuted as a film critic in the newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón. In Madrid, he joined the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas. He exerted great influence on the medium from his teaching at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía. In 1967 he founded the production company El Imán, Cine y Televisión, with which he has financed his own projects and those of other filmmakers. Of his personal work, two films stand out: Furtivos (1975), Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival and a great success for its opposition to the limits of censorship at the beginning of the Spanish Transition, and Leo (2000), which won the Goya for best director. However, both his initial commissions, such as the spaghetti western Brandy (1964) and the crime film Crimen de doble filo (1965), and the controversial later films Tata mía (1986) and Niño Nadie (1996), have had little repercussion. Between 1994 and 1998 he was president of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). In 2001 he was elected full member of the Real …

Directed

1. Poachers (1975) — Director
2. Tata Mía (1986) — Director
3. On the Line (1984) — Director
4. B. Must Die (1975) — Director
5. Leo (2000) — Director
6. Niño nadie (1997) — Director
7. Double Edged Crime (1965) — Director
8. Celia (1993) — Director
9. La Sabina (1979) — Director
10. Ride and Kill (1964) — Director
11. En el río (1960) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Poachers (1975) — Gobernador
2. My Dearest Senorita (1972) — Médico (uncredited)
3. Everyone Off to Jail (1993) — Capellan
4. Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés (1969) — Tio Prudencio
5. Snakes and Ladders (1965) — Cliente del café (uncredited)
6. Ilona Arrives with the Rain (1996) — Alcántara
7. Somnambulists (1978) — Director de la biblioteca
8. Misadventure (1988) — Alcántara
9. Enrique Herreros (2011) — Self - Filmmaker
10. Cuentos para una escapada (1981)
11. Por la gracia de Luis (2009) — Himself
12. Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta (2010)
13. La adúltera (1975) — Médico
14. Lo Siguiente (2018) — Self - Presenter