Juan Antonio Bardem

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Juan Antonio Bardem in 1977.

Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz (born June 2, 1922 in Madrid ; † October 30, 2002 there ) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter .

Life

Juan Antonio Bardem was the son of the actor couple Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro . He initially studied agricultural science but began making short documentaries in the second half of the 1940s . In 1953 he founded the left-wing film magazine Objetivo .

In the 1950s, Bardem was one of the most important Spanish directors. With the films Death of a cyclist and the main street , he won the FIPRESCI Prize , Revenge was for the Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film nomination. Because of his open opposition to the Franco regime , Bardem was arrested repeatedly and his films were banned from showing . At a congress in Salamanca in 1955, Bardem said that Spanish cinema was "politically ineffective, insincere in social issues, intellectually worthless, aesthetically non-existent" and "gave no evidence of our time".

In 1982 he received the Great Special Prize of the Jury at the XXIII. For his film Die Maeldung , a co-production between Bulgaria, GDR and the Soviet Union, a film biography of the Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov . Karlovy Vary International Film Festival .

Juan Antonio Bardem is the father of the director Miguel Bardem and the uncle of the actor Javier Bardem .

Films (selection)

  • 1952: Welcome, Mr. Marshall (Bienvenido Mister Marshall) - script only
  • 1953: Esa pareja feliz - co-director
  • 1955: The death of a cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista)
  • 1955: The Great Seducer (Don Juan) - script only
  • 1956: Main Street (Calle Mayor)
  • 1958: Revenge (La venganza)
  • 1958: Forbidden Beach (Playa Prohibida) - script only
  • 1960: Bread and Blood (A las cinco de la tarde)
  • 1963: Who speaks of guilt (Los inocentes)
  • 1963: A woman passed by (Nunca pasa nada)
  • 1965: The temptation is called Jenny (Los pianos mecánicos)
  • 1973: Ruler of a sunken world (La isla misteriosa)
  • 1973: Mask of Horror (La corrupción de Chris Miller)
  • 1977: a long weekend (El puente)
  • 1979: Seven days in January (Siete días de enero)
  • 1982: The reminder (Предупреждението)
  • 1987: Federico Garcia Lorca - The Death of a Poet (Lorca, muerte de un poeta) (TV)
  • 1992: El joven Picasso (TV)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Marsha Kinder: Creating a Modern Spanish Cinema . Essay in the DVD -Issue the Criterion Collection , 2008, accessed January 25, 2013.
  2. ↑ The Death of a Cyclist . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1959 ( online - short review).
  3. ^ Hauptstrasse in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used .
personal data
SURNAME Bardem, Juan Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2002
Place of death Madrid