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Carlos Saura

Carlos Saura

Spanish photographer and film director
January 4, 1932 (February 10, 2023)

Walls Can Talk

V.O.: Las paredes hablan
Esp. 2022. Documentary by Carlos Saura. Having begun on the walls of caves, the visual arts have always had as supports the surfaces of walls and screens.
Runtime: 75 min.
Esp. 2010. Music documentary by Carlos Saura. Emerging artists and new talents of contemporary flamenco take turns performing in a refined setting.
Runtime: 97 min.

I, Don Giovanni

V.O.: Io, Don Giovanni
It. 2009. History by Carlos Saura with Lorenzo Balducci, Lino Guanciale, Ketevan Kemolidze. In the 18th century, Lorenzo Da Ponte, an ex-priest banished from Venice for hedonism, settled in Vienna where he became the librettist for Mozart.
Runtime: 120 min.
Port. 2007. Music documentary by Carlos Saura. Artists from Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde take turns performing Fado, a musical genre created in the Lisbon region in the 19th century.
Runtime: 90 min.
Esp. 2005. Musical drama by Carlos Saura.
Runtime: 90 min.
Esp. 2002. Musical drama by Carlos Saura with Aida Gomez, Pere Arquillué, Paco Mora. The preparations and performance of a flamenco ballet inspired by the biblical story of Salome.

Goya in Bordeaux

V.O.: Goya en Burdeos
Esp. 1999. Biography by Carlos Saura with Francisco Rabal, Jose Coronado, Dafne Fernandez. On the eve of his death, the famous painter Francisco de Goya tells his daughter about the decisive stages of his life
Runtime: 104 min.
Esp. 1998. Musical drama by Carlos Saura with Miguel Angel Sola, Mia Maestro, Cecilia Narova. A director preparing a tango show is seduced by one of his dancers, who is the mistress of a producer who is a member of the mafia.
Runtime: 115 min.
Esp. 1997. Dramatic comedy by Carlos Saura.
Esp. 1995. Music performance by Carlos Saura.
Runtime: 100 min.

Outrage

V.O.: Dispara!
Esp. 1993. Psychological drama by Carlos Saura with Francesca Neri, Antonio Banderas, Walter Vidarte. A circus performer runs away after shooting the three thugs who raped her.
Runtime: 115 min.
Esp. 1992. Music performance by Carlos Saura with Rocio Jurado, Paco de Lucia, Manolo Sanlucar. Presentation of a dozen flamenco dance numbers choreographed by Matilde Coral.
Runtime: 53 min.

Ay Carmela!

V.O.: Ay, Carmela!
Esp. 1990. Dramatic comedy by Carlos Saura with Carmen Maura, Andres Pajares, Gabino Diego. During the Spanish Civil War, three jugglers fall into the hands of Franco's troops, who want them to perform a show in honour of Franco.
Runtime: 103 min.
Esp. 1988. Epic by Carlos Saura with Omero Antonutti, Lambert Wilson, Eusebio Poncela. In 1560, a Spanish expedition ventures down an Amazonian river in search of a mythical land, where it is said that there is an abundance of gold.
Runtime: 121 min.

L'Amour sorcier

V.O.: El Amor Brujo
Esp. 1986. Musical drama by Carlos Saura with Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura Del Sol. A Roma person obsessed with the ghost of her husband is seduced by the man who is wrongly accused of his death.
Runtime: 100 min.
Esp. 1983. Musical drama by Carlos Saura with Antonio Gades, Laura Del Sol, Cristina Hoyos. A choreographer falls in love with the dancer who plays Carmen in a flamenco ballet.
Runtime: 102 min.
Mex. 1982. Psychological drama by Carlos Saura with Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Carlos Bracho. For the purposes of a book, a journalist investigates a Mexican woman who shot herself in the heart in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1931.
Runtime: 108 min.

Blood Wedding

V.O.: Bodas de sangre
Esp. 1981. Music performance by Carlos Saura with Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio.
Runtime: 72 min.

Doux Moments du passé

V.O.: Dulces Horas
Esp. 1981. Psychological drama by Carlos Saura with Inaki Aierra, Assumpta Serna, Alvaro de Luna.
Runtime: 107 min.

Maman a cent ans

V.O.: Mamá cumple cien años
Esp. 1979. Dramatic comedy by Carlos Saura with Geraldine Chaplin, Rafaela Aparicio, Norman Brinsky.
Runtime: 98 min.

Les Yeux bandés

V.O.: Los Ojos vendados
Esp. 1978. Psychological drama by Carlos Saura with Geraldine Chaplin, Jose Luis Gomez, Xavier Elorriaga.
Runtime: 111 min.

Elisa, mon amour

V.O.: Elisa vida mia
Esp. 1976. Psychological drama by Carlos Saura with Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Rey, Norman Briski. A young woman in trouble with her husband spends a few days with her father.
Runtime: 127 min.

Cria!

V.O.: Cria Cuervos
Esp. 1975. Psychological drama by Carlos Saura with Ana Torrent, Geraldine Chaplin, Monica Randall. A little girl believes she has the power of life and death over her family.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Angelic Cousin

V.O.: La Prima Angélica
Esp. 1973. Chronicle by Carlos Saura with Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez, Fernando Delgado, Lina Canalejas. Back in a small town in Castile, a taciturn forty-year-old relives certain moments of his childhood with shocking clarity.
Runtime: 107 min.

The Garden of Delights

V.O.: El Jardin de las Delicias
Esp. 1970. Satire by Carlos Saura with Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez, Lucky Seto, Francisco Pierra. The family of a men with amnesia seeks to discover where he deposited his fortune.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Honeycomb

V.O.: La Madriguera
Esp. 1969. Psychological drama by Carlos Saura with Geraldine Chaplin, Per Oscarsson, Teresa Del Rio. The storage of old family furniture in the cellar of the house gives rise to curious obsessions in the subconscious of a young woman.
Runtime: 102 min.
Esp. 1967. Mores drama by Carlos Saura with Geraldine Chaplin, Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez, Alfredo Mayo. Obsessed with the wife of a childhood friend, a doctor forces his assistant to become her look-alike.
Runtime: 92 min.

The Hunt

V.O.: La Caza
Esp. 1965. Psychological drama by Carlos Saura with Ismael Merlo, Alfredo Mayo, Jose Maria Prada. Three former activists of the Spanish Civil War return, for a hunting party, to the places where they fought.
Runtime: 85 min.

Weeping for a Bandit

V.O.: Llanto por un bandido
Esp. 1963. Drama by Carlos Saura with Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari, Philippe Leroy. A peasant joins bandits and becomes their leader.
Runtime: 93 min.

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