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Also known as Carlos Saura Atarés, Carlos Saura Atares

Spanish photographer and film director (1932–2023)

OverviewAI-generated

Carlos Saura was a Spanish artist whose professional career spanned from 1955 to 2023. Born on January 4, 1932, he passed away on February 10, 2023. He had seven children.

His published works include *El Rastro*, *Otras miradas*, *De imágenes también se vive*, *El Aragón de Saura*, and *Fotosaurios de cine*. Music associated with him has been tagged with terms such as jamendo, rock, instrumental, guitar, and instrumental rock.

Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1932
Works
24

Top works

  • El Rastro
  • Otras miradas
  • De imágenes también se vive
  • El Aragón de Saura
  • Fotosaurios de cine

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
ES
Active from
1995-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2,349
Total plays
17,725

Tags

jamendorockinstrumentalguitarinstrumental rock

There are two persons known as Carlos Saura 1. Carlos Saura began to play guitar at the age of 10. He later joined the Superior Conservatory of Music of Málaga and studied modern harmony and jazz with private professors. Carlos went on to form various rock and blues bands and achieved notable recognition in the region. In 1996 he received the title of professional guitarist from the Musician’s Institute (G.I.T) of Hollywood (Los Angeles), receiving classes from noted guitarists like Scott Hend

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Carlos
Gender
male
Citizenship
Spain
Place of birth
Huesca
Place of death
Collado Mediano
Sibling
Q528511
Occupation
filmmaker
Languages spoken
Spanish
Notable work
La prima Angélica
Field of work
photography
Image
Premios Goya 2018 - Carlos Saura.jpg
Number of children
7
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date of birth
1932-01-04
Commons category
Carlos Saura
unmarried partner
Geraldine Chaplin
name in native language
Carlos Saura Atarés
has works in the collection
Museum of Modern Art
cause of death
respiratory failure
start of work period
1955-00-00
floruit
2016-01-01
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
date of death
2023-02-10
end of work period
2023-00-00
manner of death
natural causes
Sources (15)

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Carlos Saura, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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