Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Director · b. 1942 · Torrelavega, Cantabria, Spain
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (Torrelavega -Cantabria-, January 2, 1942). Spanish film director, screenwriter and writer. Graduated in Philosophy and Letters, in 1970 he graduated as a filmmaker at the Escuela Oficial de Cine de Madrid. In 1973 he debuted as a director with Habla, mudita and won the Critics' Prize at the 1974 Berlin International Film Festival and an Oscar nomination. Between 1974 and 1975 he wrote the screenplays for Las truchas, Furtivos, and Las largas vacaciones del 36 and established himself as one of the best directors of his generation with Camada negra (1977), Sonámbulos (1977) and El corazón del bosque (1978).
Movies7
Movie8.0DocumentaryMusicShe appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This is the story of Ana Belén.
La corte de Ana
2020 · 2 votes
Movie6.4DocumentaryHistoryA look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances.
La memoria del cine: una película sobre Fernando Méndez-Leite
The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite
2023 · 5 votes
Movie5.6DramaElvira, daughter of a disgraced military, who entered a convent at a young age leaves him and returns home to settle in Madrid with his beloved nanny, seeking help to overcome their crisis. However, the country has changed so much in his years of confinement that has little or nothing to do with his childhood memories ...
Tata Mía
1986 · 17 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryHistoryHow does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.
Berlanga!!
2021 · 1 votes
Movie6.0Documentary24 horas en la vida de Querejeta
2012 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DocumentaryTV MovieThe story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.
Movie5.0DocumentaryA walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the greatest directors of Spanish cinema. Anything can happen: the performers are not themselves, but their characters; there are no interviews, but greetings; a series of entrances and exits. A joyful reunion, a celebration of life.
Por la gracia de Luis
2009 · 1 votes