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José Luis Borau
Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
Spanish film director and producer, born in Zaragoza. He studied law in his hometown and debuted as a film critic in the newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón. In Madrid, he joined the I…
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Spanish film director and producer, born in Zaragoza. He studied law in his hometown and debuted as a film critic in the newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón. In Madrid, he joined the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas. He exerted great influence on the medium from his teaching at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía. In 1967 he founded the production company El Imán, Cine y Televisión, with which he has financed his own projects and those of other filmmakers. Of his personal work, two films stand out: Furtivos (1975), Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival and a great success for its opposition to the limits of censorship at the beginning of the Spanish Transition, and Leo (2000), which won the Goya for best director. However, both his initial commissions, such as the spaghetti western Brandy (1964) and the crime film Crimen de doble filo (1965), and the controversial later films Tata mía (1986) and Niño Nadie (1996), have had little repercussion. Between 1994 and 1998 he was president of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). In 2001 he was elected full member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and in 2002 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cinematografía.
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2026
My Dearest Señorita
Movie Original Film Writer
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2018
Lo Siguiente
TV show Self - Presenter
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2011
Enrique Herreros
Movie Self - Filmmaker
- 2010
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2009
Por la gracia de Luis
Movie Himself
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2001
Anna's Summer
Movie Producer
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2000
Leo
Movie Director
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1997
Niño nadie
Movie Director
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1996
Ilona Arrives with the Rain
Movie Alcántara
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1993
Everyone Off to Jail
Movie Capellan
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1993
Celia
TV show Writer
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1988
Misadventure
Movie Alcántara
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1986
Tata Mía
Movie Writer
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1984
On the Line
Movie Director
- 1981
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1979
La Sabina
Movie Director
More credits
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1978
Somnambulists
Movie Director de la biblioteca
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1977
Black Litter
Movie Writer
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1977
In Memoriam
Movie Producer
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1977
El monosabio
Movie Screenplay
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1975
La adúltera
Movie Médico
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1975
Poachers
Movie Gobernador
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1975
B. Must Die
Movie Director
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1972
My Dearest Senorita
Movie Médico (uncredited)
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1970
Estado de sitio
Movie Producer
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1969
Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
Movie Tio Prudencio
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1965
Snakes and Ladders
Movie Cliente del café (uncredited)
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1965
Double Edged Crime
Movie Director
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1964
Ride and Kill
Movie Screenplay
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1960
En el río
Movie Director
