Carlos Saura

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 A…

Directed

1. Cria! (1976) — Director
2. Ay, Carmela! (1990) — Director
3. Carmen (1983) — Director
4. The Hunt (1966) — Director
5. Faster, Faster (1981) — Director
6. Anna and the Wolves (1973) — Director
7. Blood Wedding (1981) — Director
8. Peppermint Frappé (1967) — Director
9. The 7th Day (2004) — Director
10. Tango (1998) — Director
11. Mama Turns 100 (1979) — Director
12. Cousin Angelica (1974) — Director
13. Taxi (1996) — Director
14. Goya in Bordeaux (1999) — Director
15. Outrage (1993) — Director
16. Elisa, My Life (1977) — Director
17. Flamenco Flamenco (2010) — Director
18. El amor brujo (1986) — Director
19. El Dorado (1988) — Director
20. The Garden of Delights (1970) — Director
21. Little Bird (1997) — Director
22. I, Don Giovanni (2009) — Director
23. The Delinquents (1960) — Director
24. Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (2001) — Director
25. Fados (2007) — Director
26. Flamenco (1995) — Director
27. Stress Is Three (1968) — Director
28. Iberia (2005) — Director
29. Antonieta (1982) — Director
30. Salomé (2002) — Director
31. Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy (2021) — Director
32. Honeycomb (1969) — Director
33. Sweet Hours (1982) — Director
34. The Dark Night of the Soul (1989) — Director
35. Argentina (2015) — Director
36. Sevilles (1992) — Director
37. Blindfolded Eyes (1978) — Director
38. The King of Ads (1991) — Director
39. The Stilts (1984) — Director
40. Weeping for a Bandit (1964) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Little Apartment (1959) — (uncredited)
2. Critic (2008) — Self
3. Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018) — Self - Filmmaker
4. Speaking of Buñuel (2000) — Self
5. Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel (2022) — Self
6. Saura(s) (2017) — Self
7. Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin (2015) — Self
8. Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores (2018) — Self (archive footage)
9. Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones (2005) — Self
10. Portrait of Carlos Saura (2004) — Self
11. The Walls Can Talk (2023) — Self
12. Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza (2007) — Self
13. Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí (2015) — Self
14. Aragón rodado (2014) — Self
15. Donde acaba la memoria (2022) — Self
16. In the Lost City (2009) — Self
17. 24 horas en la vida de Querejeta (2012) — Self
18. Rafael Azcona (2010) — Self
19. Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy (2013) — Inszenierung
20. Les paradoxes de Buñuel (1998) — Self
21. El proceso (1955)
22. Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975) — Self
23. Carlos Saura - Fotograf (2017) — Self
24. Miradas del cine español (2024)
25. Buñuel (1989) — Self
26. Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire (2016) — Carlos Saura
27. Goyasaurio (2021) — Self
28. The Kid in the Photo - Carlos Saura (2026)
29. Lo + plus (1995) — Self - Guest
30. Ciné regards (1978) — Self