José Luis Borau

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José Luis Borau Moradell (born August 8, 1929 in Saragossa , † November 23, 2012 in Madrid ) was a Spanish film director , screenwriter , film producer and actor . In 2001 he was awarded the Spanish Goya Film Prize for his film Leo .

life and work

Borau began studying law in Saragossa in 1949. After working for a short time as a film critic for the daily Heraldo de Aragón , Borau attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía in Madrid from 1957 , which he successfully completed in 1961 with the short film El Río ("The River").

In the 1960s, he was regarded as the hope of the “New Spanish Cinema”, but in contrast to his contemporaries who were oriented towards psychological films, he turned to the Hollywood-influenced spaghetti westerns ( Brandy , 1963, German title: Law of Bravados ) or thriller ( Crimen de doble filo , 1965), albeit with modest commercial success.

From working on these films, he concluded that he could only make really satisfactory films under his own control, and in 1967 he founded his own production company El Imán . For ten years he mainly shot commercials and produced films by foreign directors. He was also a lecturer in screenwriting at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía .

His first film under complete control was the political thriller Hay que matar a B. (German title: B muss die ) in 1973, which for the first time brought his precise, meticulous style to full advantage in terms of direction, narrative construction and editing.

Borau had his greatest commercial success in 1975 with the crime drama Furtivos (German title: Poacher ), which is regarded as the most important example of Spanish film in late French. The visual staging of the actions in the wooded landscapes around Madrid is particularly impressive. The film received the Concha de Oro (German: Golden Shell ) and the award for the best Spanish-language film at the San Sebastián Film Festival in 1975 .

After Sabina (1979) he was the director of the Spanish-American co-production Rio Abajo (German title: On the Line ) with David Carradine and Victoria Abril in 1984 . After he had achieved another great success with critics and audiences in 1986 with Tata mía (with Imperio Argentina and Carmen Maura ) (among other things nominated for the Goya in the category best script), he did not shoot another until 1997, when Niño nadie appeared Movie.

In 1993 Borau drew attention to himself with the television series Celia based on stories by Elena Fortún, which he actually only wanted to write and produce, but which he ultimately also directed in part. It found a considerable audience on Spanish television.

Borau was a member of the jury of the Berlin International Film Festival in 1991 . From 1994 to 1999 he was president of the Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas , and in 1995 he founded his own publishing house for film books, Ediciones El Imán.

In 2001 he received the Goya for best director for his film Leo (2000) . He also won the Special Jury Prize of the Malaga Film Festival and, together with Álex de la Iglesias La Comunidad, the Premio Fotogramas de Plata . In 2003 he received the prose prize Premio Tigre Juan of the city of Oviedo for his story Camisa de once varas . Since July 2007 he has been chairman of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), a writers and publishers association that is primarily active in the field of copyright protection. Since February 2008 he was a member of the Real Academia Española , in which he took seat B as the successor to the late Fernando Fernán Gómez .

Movies

Director
  • 1964: Law of the Bravados (Brandy, el sheriff de Losatumba)
  • 1965: Crimen de doble filo
  • 1970: Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés (co-director)
  • 1975: B. must die (Hay que matar a B)
  • 1975: Poacher (Furtivos)
  • 1979: La Sabina
  • 1984: On the Line (Rio Abajo)
  • 1986: Tata mía
  • 1993: Celia (TV series)
  • 1997: Niño nadie
  • 2000: Leo

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spanish filmmaker Borau dies ( Memento from November 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Borau, José Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borau Moradell, José Luis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaragoza
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 2012
Place of death Madrid