The Spanish director Charles Sauro He died this Friday at the age of 91 in Madrid, one day before receiving an honorary Goya (the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars) at the Film Academy awards ceremony, which confirmed his death.
Born in 1932 in Huesca (northern Spain), Saura is the author of legendary films of Spanish cinema such as Hunting, cousin Angelica, raises crows AND Yes Carmella.
His trilogy with Antonio Gades
In 1981 Saura began a collaboration with Antonio Gades, after seeing his theatrical ballet Blood wedding. The director proposed to bring it to the cinema, thus starting a genuine musical genre far from the Anglo-Saxon schemes.
The musical was an unexpected international success after it screened at Cannes and dazzled with a new genre of dance film, which helped spread Spanish dance around the world.
Again with Antonio Gades and the producer Emiliano Piedra, he then made an adaptation of Bizet’s work Carmen, international success in 1983, awarded in Cannes and selected for the Oscar.
Finally, with The wizard of loveinspired by Falla’s work of the same name, his most ambitious musical to date, he closed a trilogy dedicated to contemporary Spanish musicals.
Filming Tango, Argentina
In June 1997, Saura moved to Argentina to film Tango, which attended the Oscars under the Argentine flag. It was the most awarded film of the year in Argentina and Saura received the Condor Award from the Argentine Critics Association as the best director of the year.
Source: Clarin
