Fernando Trueba
Birthday: 1955-01-18
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Biography: Trueba studied Cinematography at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, was cinema critic for the newspaper 'El País' and for 'La Guía del Ocio' and also founded the journal "Casablanca". At the movies his first success was 'Opera Prima' (1980) following the style of the "comedia madrileña". He had major success with 'Sé infiel y no mires con quién' (1985) starting a longer colaboration with the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez. He won the second Foreign Film Academy Award for Spain in 1993 with 'Belle Epoque'.
Movies
FFG, el último gran conversador
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one ...
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the ...
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Berlanga!!
How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relev...
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Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro
Enrique Morente's three sons tell the story of their father: the most revolutionary flamenco in hist...
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El último truco
Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1...
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Aragón rodado
A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cine...
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Spanish Fly
A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But tha...
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The Critic
A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cine...
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Miradas del cine español
Reflections on Spanish cinema, based on seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers, analyzing thei...
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Summers el rebelde
Winner of the Silver Shell for Best Director for his debut film, Del rosa... al amarillo, Manolo Sum...
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Un cine como tú en un país como éste
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmake...
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The Other Way Around
After 15 years as a couple, Ale and Alex decide to throw a party to celebrate their separation, leav...
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Madame Cinéma
A documentary on Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf, who won the Cannes International Critics Pr...
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¡Ay, Carmen!
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director...
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Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Ch...
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Stories of Our Cinema
In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country ar...
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Luis García Berlanga: pasado, presente y futuro del cine español
A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perduran...
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Aquí
Child refugee David befriends Simón on a boat travelling to a no-man’s land. Upon their arrival, Sim...
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