Carlos Saura Atares He was born on January 4, 1932 in Huesca, Spain.
His training during his childhood was quite common, traditional, and he entered the world of cinema in the early 50’s.
He took his first steps with the documentary film style, in 1958 he recorded “Basin”, and by 1960 it was consecrated as far as documentary is concerned with “The Golfos”, where it opens the gap towards Neorealism.
In 1965 with “The hunt”, a film about the terrible life during the Spanish Civil War, allowed him to access great international prizes, including the Berlin Festival.
Two years later, he records, together with Elias Querejeta the movie “Peppermint Frappe“, again about the repression and the psychological consequences of a social massacre, eroticism, sex and generational degeneration.
Highlighted by the censorship of the time, Saura directed the following films between 1967 and 1972: “Stress, it’s three, three”, “The burrow”, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” Y “Ana and the wolves“.
In 1973 he received an award at the Cannes Film Festival for “Cousin Angelica”, where times, both present and past, merge into a sea from which it is impossible to get out.
“Breeding ravens” in 1975, he resumed his search on the traces of memory, and was awarded a prize again at Cannes.
“Elisa, my life” in 1977 it is probably his best film of his career. Merging both cinema and literary pieces, Fernando Rey Y Geraldine chaplin, read the newspaper at his death.
In 1978 “Blindfold“, raises a point of view on torture, which also coincides with the beginning of democracy.
He wins Oscar to Best film Foreigner, but only in 1979 with the feature film “Mom is 100 years old”, which tells the story of repressed desires of men within a family when a beautiful young woman arrives, who drives him crazy, is known worldwide.
The 80’s mark a new course in the cinema of Saura, with “Hurry, hurry”, film that allows you to win a Golden Bear In Berlin.
With “Blood Wedding”, creates or redirects a genre, working on flamenco, based on the homonymous book by Garcia lorca.
The break with Elias Querejeta occurs after the movie “Sweet Hours“, and in 1982 he produced his first film in Latin America, “Antonieta”.
In 1989 his film was released “The dark night”, on Saint John of the Cross, the classic Spanish poet.
In the early 90’s, Ay Carmela!, Rafael Azcone he scripted it and won 13 awards at the Goya Awards.
Saura he moved to Argentina, more specifically in Buenos Aires, to record “The South”, about the classic tale of the world-famous Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges.
In 1993 the movie appears “Shoot”, about a tale of Scerbanenco. In 1997 he returned to Argentina and rolled “Tango”, a film that takes him back to the Oscars.
Two years later Saura premieres “Goya” in Bordeaux, for which he received the highest prize at the Montreal festival.
After a long break, in 2004 he appears “The seventh day”, about the massacre in Spain in the 90’s.