José Luis Borau
José Luis Borau | |
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Born | José Luis Borau Moradell 8 August 1929 Real Academia Española |
In office 16 November 2008 – 23 November 2012 | |
Preceded by | Fernando Fernán Gómez |
Succeeded by | Aurora Egido |
José Luis Borau Moradell (8 August 1929 – 23 November 2012) was a Spanish producer,
Borau was born in Zaragoza. In addition to directing, he acted in some films, including Everyone Off to Jail in 1993.
He was president of the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1994–1998), and member of the jury at the
Borau died on 23 December 2012 aged 83 in
Career
Born in Zaragoza. During the Spanish Civil War he was kept from school by his overprotecting parents. From an early age, Borau had great love for literature and films. Following family pressure, he studied law in his native Zaragoza and worked at Madrid's Ministry of Housing in 1957. He began his career working for the regional newspaper Heraldo de Aragón as film critic. He pursued his interest in filmmaking by moving to Madrid enrolling in the national film school IIEC (Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias de Cinematografia) where he specialized in film direction. He graduated with the short film En el Río (1960).
Borau followed this with a series of shorts and commercials for Spanish television. His first feature film was a genre film: Brandy (1963), a low-budget Western starring Alex Nicol and Robert Hundar.[3] Brandy was followed the next year by Crimen de doble filo Double edged crime (1964), a brooding psychological thriller. These two films were received as just two commercial projects. In 1966, Borau launched his television career for the Spanish network TVE working on episodes of Dichoso Mundo (What a World), which starred stage actress Conchita Montes.
From 1962 until 1970, Borau taught screenwriting at the national film school EOC. Some of his students became the next generation of notable Spanish filmmakers including Antonio Drove, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Pilar Miró and Ivan Zulueta.[3] While still teaching, Borau attempted to interest film producers in his scripts, but to no avail. As he did not like the films he was offered to direct either, he decided to create his own production company El Iman with capital he had made in advertisement for television. The first project that came out from El Iman was Un dos tres al escondite Inglés (Hide and Seek) (1969), a film directed by Ivan Zuleta. This project was followed by Jaime de Armiñán Mi querida señorita (My Dearest Senorita), with a script co-written by Borau.[3] My Dearest Senorita, an unusual work in Spanish cinema, portrays the ignorance in some provincial areas of Spain through the tragic story of a man who was raised as a woman and doesn’t know his true identity. The film was a critical and commercial success and it was nominated for an Oscar in the foreign language category.
In 1973, Borau scripted, produced and directed his third film, his first very personal project, Hay que matar a B (B must die) (1973). The film has an international cast, including
In 1979 Borau undertook another international coproduction, La Sabina, a story of passion and superstition set in
Borau seventh film,
Filmography
Director
Year | English title | Original title | Notes |
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1960 | In the river | En el río | Documentary short |
1963 | Ride and Kill | Brandy | |
1965 | Double Edge Crime | Crimen de doble filo | |
1974 | B Must Die | Hay que matar a B | |
1975 | Poachers
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Furtivos | Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. |
1979 | La Sabina | La Sabina | |
1984 | On the line | Río abajo | |
1986 | My Nanny | Tata mía
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1992 | Celia | Celia | Made for television. |
1996 | Niño nadie | Niño nadie | |
2000 | Leo | Leo | Goya Award Best director Entered into the 22nd Moscow International Film Festival.[5] |
Actor
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1965 | El juego de la oca | Cliente del café | Uncredited |
1970 | Un, dos, tres... al escondite inglés | Tío Prudencio | Uncredited |
1972 | My Dearest Senorita | Médico | Uncredited |
1975 | Furtivos
|
Gobernador | |
1975 | La adúltera | Médico | |
1978 | Sonámbulos | Director de la biblioteca | |
1981 | Cuentos para una escapada | ||
1988 | Malaventura | Alcántara | |
1993 | Todos a la cárcel | Capellan | |
1996 | Ilona llega con la lluvia | Alcántara | (final film role) |
Novels
- Camisa de once varas, 2003 Tigre Juan Award winner for narrative[6]
- Navidad, horrible navidad
Notes
- ^ "Berlinale: 1991 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
- Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española(in Spanish). 23 December 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ a b c D’Lugo, Guide to the Cinema of Spain, p. 132
- ^ a b c d e D’Lugo, Guide to the Cinema of Spain, p. 133
- ^ "22nd Moscow International Film Festival (2000)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-03-28. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
- ^ Ruiz Mantilla, Jesús (20 December 2003). "Borau gana el Premio Tigre Juan de Narrativa por 'Camisa de once varas'" [Borau Wins the Tigre Juan Narrative Award for 'Camisa de once varas']. El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
References
- D’Lugo, Marvin. Guide to the Cinema of Spain. Greenwood Press, 1997. ISBN 0313294747
- Torres, Augusto M. Diccionario Espasa Cine Español. Espasa Calpe, 1994, ISBN 84-239-9203-9
External links
- José Luis Borau at IMDb