Álex de la Iglesia

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Álex de la Iglesia at the Berlinale 2017

Álex de la Iglesia (actually Alejandro de la Iglesia ; born December 4, 1965 in Bilbao , Spain ) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter . Between June 2009 and February 2011 he was the President of the Spanish Film Academy .

biography

He started drawing comics at a young age. His role models were Stan Lee , Manuel Vázquez and Alex Raymond . After studying philosophy at the University of Deusto , he came to television as a production designer and was responsible for setting up Enrique Urbizu's four-time Goya- nominated thriller Todo por la pasta from 1991. In 1991 De la Iglesia also released his horror short film Mirindas asesinas with Álex Angulo in the lead role. The short film made him aware of, among others, Pedro Almodóvar , who will make his next film,Action mutant , wanted to produce. The $ 2.5 million science fiction comedy came out on February 3, 1993 and won awards at several film festivals as well as three Goyas. De la Iglesia was also nominated for the Goya as Best Young Director, but had toadmit defeat to Julio Médem ( Vacas - cows ).

De la Iglesia at the Guadalajara Festival

An even greater success than Aktion Mutante was El día de la bestia , in which Álex Angulo again played a leading role. The film is about a priest who believes the Antichrist would be born in Madrid at Christmas and tries to prevent this with two colleagues. The horror comedy, which has won multiple awards at film festivals and grossed over four million euros in Spanish cinemas, was nominated for fourteen Goyas and won in six categories, including Best Director . This was followed by the road movie Perdita Durango with Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem and the comedy Muertos de risa with Santiago Segura and El Gran Wyoming . The black crime comedy Alone Among Neighbors - La comunidad , which was another major commercial success in Spain with grossing over six million euros, is about the realtor Julia (played by Carmen Maura ), who appropriates the fortune of a deceased neighbor and herself must then enforce against their other neighbors, who are also targeting the money. The film won in three categories at the Goyas Awards 2001 and was nominated in twelve other categories, including Best Film and Best Director .

In the 2002 western comedy 800 Bullets , he not only directed and wrote the screenplay, but also produced his own film for the first time, which he repeated in his next project, Ein ferpektes Verbrechen . The film received nominations for the European Film Awards 2005 and the Goyas 2005 , but had to admit defeat to other films in all categories.

In 2010, Iglesia won the director's award at the 67th Venice Film Festival for his feature film Mad Circus - A Ballad of Love and Death , which featured a sad clown in the center and grotesquely exaggeratedly denounced the horrors of the Franco regime . In 2014, Iglesia married the film's lead actress, Spanish actress Carolina Bang .

In July 2014, a few days before the final of the soccer World Cup de la Iglesias, the documentary Messi about the soccer player Lionel Messi premiered in Rio de Janeiro.

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Álex de la Iglesia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Academia de Cine elige como presidente a Álex de la Iglesia on El País , accessed on November 3, 2009
  2. ↑ Carolina Bang y Álex de la Iglesia se han casado en Girona at: 20minutos.es (Spanish), accessed on August 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ The film about Leo Messi premieres in Rio de Janeiro on fcbarcelona.com, accessed on August 14, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Iglesia, Alex de la
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilbao , Spain