Carlos Saura
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.
Fotos
Filme (81)
The Kid in the Photo - Carlos Saura
2026
Miradas del cine español
2024
The Walls Can Talk
2023 · Self, Director, Writer
Donde acaba la memoria
2022 · Self
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
2022 · Self
The King of All the World
2021 · Director, Screenplay
Goya, May 3rd
2021 · Director
Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
2021 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
Goyasaurio
2021 · Self
Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander
2018 · Writer, Director
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
2018 · Self - Filmmaker
Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Saura(s)
2017 · Self
Carlos Saura - Fotograf
2017 · Self
J: Beyond Flamenco
2016 · Director, Writer
Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire
2016 · Carlos Saura
Argentina
2015 · Director, Writer
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
2015 · Self
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
2015 · Self
Aragón rodado
2014 · Self
Carlos Saura´s FlamencoHoy
2013 · Inszenierung, Writer
24 horas en la vida de Querejeta
2012 · Self
Flamenco Flamenco
2010 · Director, Writer
Rafael Azcona
2010 · Self
Ich, Don Giovanni
2009 · Director, Writer
In the Lost City
2009 · Self
Sinfonía de Aragón
2008 · Writer, Director
Critic
2008 · Self
Fados
2007 · Director, Writer, Production Design
Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
2007 · Self
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
2005 · Self
Iberia
2005 · Director
The 7th Day
2004 · Director
Portrait of Carlos Saura
2004 · Self
Salomé
2002 · Director, Writer, Set Designer
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
2001 · Director, Screenplay
Speaking of Buñuel
2000 · Self
Goya in Bordeaux
1999 · Director, Writer
Tango
1998 · Director, Writer
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
1998 · Self
Little Bird
1997 · Director, Writer
Taxi
1996 · Director
Flamenco
1995 · Director, Writer
Outrage
1993 · Writer, Director
Marathon
1993 · Director, Writer
El sur
1992 · Director, Screenplay
Sevilles
1992 · Director
The King of Ads
1991 · Director
Ay, Carmela!
1990 · Director, Screenplay
The Dark Night of the Soul
1989 · Director, Screenplay
Buñuel
1989 · Self
El Dorado
1988 · Director, Writer
El amor brujo
1986 · Director, Writer
The Stilts
1984 · Director, Writer
Carmen
1983 · Director, Choreographer, Writer
Antonieta
1982 · Director, Writer
Sweet Hours
1982 · Director, Writer
Faster, Faster
1981 · Director, Writer
Blood Wedding
1981 · Director, Writer
Mama Turns 100
1979 · Director, Writer
Blindfolded Eyes
1978 · Director, Screenplay
Elisa, My Life
1977 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Cria!
1976 · Director, Screenplay, Screenstory
Cousin Angelica
1974 · Director, Screenplay
Anna and the Wolves
1973 · Director, Writer
The Garden of Delights
1970 · Director, Writer
Honeycomb
1969 · Screenplay, Idea, Director
Stress Is Three
1968 · Director, Screenplay, Story
Peppermint Frappé
1967 · Director, Screenplay
The Hunt
1966 · Director, Screenplay
Weeping for a Bandit
1964 · Director
Muere una mujer
1964 · Writer
The Delinquents
1960 · Director, Screenplay
The Little Apartment
1959 · (uncredited)
Cuenca
1958 · Director, Screenplay, Story, Cinematography
La tarde del domingo
1957 · Director, Writer
El pequeño Río Manzanares
1956 · Director
El proceso
1955 · Assistant Director
Before Breakfast
1955 · Director of Photography, Assistant Director
Letter of Sanabria
1955 · Assistant Camera
La llamada
1955 · Director
