Cast & creator
Carlos Saura
Best known for Les Rendez-vous du dimanche, Ciné regards, Lo + plus
Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century, and his films won many international awards. Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film The Hunt won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions. By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain. His films employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for Cousin Angelica (1973) and Cría Cuervos (1975) in Cannes, and he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for Mama Turns 100. In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Blood Wedding, Carmen and El amor brujo, in which he combined dramatic content and flamenco dance forms. His work continued to be featured in worldwide competitions and earned numerous awards. He received two nominations for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for Carmen (1983) and Tango (1998). His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination. In the last two decades of the 20th century, Saura concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images.
Also known as: 카를로스 사우라
138
film credits
5
television credits
30
1955–2026 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (143)
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Lo + plus
Self - Guest
1995
El sur
Director
1992El sur
Screenplay
1992
Cuentos de Borges
Adaptation
1993Cuentos de Borges
Director
1993
Cria!
Director
1976Cria!
Screenplay
1976Cria!
Screenstory
1976
The King of Ads
Director
1991
Anna and the Wolves
Director
1973Anna and the Wolves
Writer
1973
Salomé
Writer
2002Salomé
Director
2002Salomé
Set Designer
2002
Faster, Faster
Director
1981Faster, Faster
Writer
1981
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Self - Filmmaker
2018
Marathon
Director
1993Marathon
Writer
1993
Tango
Director
1998Tango
Writer
1998
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
Self
2022
Ay, Carmela!
Director
1990Ay, Carmela!
Screenplay
1990
Flamenco Flamenco
Director
2010Flamenco Flamenco
Writer
2010
Stress Is Three
Screenplay
1968Stress Is Three
Story
1968Stress Is Three
Director
1968
Sevilles
Director
1992
El Dorado
Director
1988El Dorado
Writer
1988
Peppermint Frappé
Director
1967Peppermint Frappé
Screenplay
1967
Outrage
Writer
1993Outrage
Director
1993
Argentina
Writer
2015Argentina
Director
2015
The 7th Day
Director
2004
The Garden of Delights
Director
1970The Garden of Delights
Writer
1970
The King of All the World
Screenplay
2021The King of All the World
Director
2021
Goya in Bordeaux
Director
1999Goya in Bordeaux
Writer
1999
Blood Wedding
Writer
1981Blood Wedding
Director
1981
Speaking of Buñuel
Self
2000
Les paradoxes de Buñuel
Self
1998
Portrait of Carlos Saura
Self
2004
Little Bird
Writer
1997Little Bird
Director
1997
Weeping for a Bandit
Director
1964
Flamenco
Writer
1995Flamenco
Director
1995
Honeycomb
Idea
1969Honeycomb
Screenplay
1969Honeycomb
Director
1969
Mama Turns 100
Director
1979Mama Turns 100
Writer
1979
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Director
2001Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Screenplay
2001
Taxi
Director
1996
Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
Self (archive footage)
2018
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
Self
2015
Miradas del cine español
2024
Critic
Self
2008
24 horas en la vida de Querejeta
Self
2012
Cousin Angelica
Director
1974Cousin Angelica
Screenplay
1974
Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
Director
2021Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
Screenplay
2021Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy
Editor
2021
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Self
2015
Rafael Azcona
Self
2010
The Dark Night of the Soul
Director
1989The Dark Night of the Soul
Screenplay
1989
I, Don Giovanni
Director
2009I, Don Giovanni
Writer
2009
Blindfolded Eyes
Director
1978Blindfolded Eyes
Screenplay
1978
The Kid in the Photo - Carlos Saura
2026
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
Self
2005
Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy
Inszenierung
2013Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy
Writer
2013
Cuenca
Cinematography
1958Cuenca
Story
1958Cuenca
Screenplay
1958Cuenca
Director
1958
El amor brujo
Writer
1986El amor brujo
Director
1986
Carmen
Director
1983Carmen
Choreographer
1983Carmen
Writer
1983
Elisa, My Life
Director
1977Elisa, My Life
Screenplay
1977Elisa, My Life
Story
1977
The Delinquents
Director
1960The Delinquents
Screenplay
1960
Sweet Hours
Director
1982Sweet Hours
Writer
1982
In the Lost City
Self
2009
La tarde del domingo
Director
1957La tarde del domingo
Writer
1957
The Hunt
Director
1966The Hunt
Screenplay
1966
The Little Apartment
(uncredited)
1959
Aragón rodado
Self
2014
Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire
Carlos Saura
2016
Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
Self
2007
Antonieta
Director
1982Antonieta
Writer
1982
Goya, May 3rd
Director
2021
J: Beyond Flamenco
Director
2016J: Beyond Flamenco
Writer
2016
The Stilts
Director
1984The Stilts
Writer
1984
Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander
Writer
2018Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander
Director
2018
Sinfonía de Aragón
Director
2008Sinfonía de Aragón
Writer
2008
Letter of Sanabria
Assistant Camera
1955
Fados
Director
2007Fados
Writer
2007Fados
Production Design
2007
El proceso
1955El proceso
Assistant Director
1955
The Walls Can Talk
Self
2023The Walls Can Talk
Director
2023The Walls Can Talk
Writer
2023
Donde acaba la memoria
Self
2022
Muere una mujer
Writer
1964
Buñuel
Self
1989
Iberia
Director
2005
La llamada
Director
1955
Carlos Saura - Fotograf
Self
2017Before Breakfast
Director of Photography
1955Before Breakfast
Assistant Director
1955
Saura(s)
Self
2017
El pequeño Río Manzanares
Director
1956
Goyasaurio
Self
2021