ibercine presents the biographies and filmographies of Spain's most renowned actors, directors and producers.
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The director of Spain's 2000 blockbuster La Comunidad and successful dark movies El Dia de la Bestia (The Day of the Beast) and Perdita Durango. One of Spain's most popular directors, his films are full of dark humour, thriller and suspense. Ibercine caught up with him at the opening of the 7th Viva! Spanish Film Festival in Manchester. Read
all about the director
here. Read all about Ibercine's meeting with him here.
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Spain's most successful and controversial director. His latest film Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother) has gained him international prestige, numerous international and Spanish awards and winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar and 3 BAFTA nominations. Ole Almodovar! |
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One of Spain's foremost leading ladies of the 1990s, Penélope Cruz has managed to make her mark on international audiences with films such as Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Woman On Top and the forecoming Vanilla Sky. Pe has conquered Hollywood with her sweetness and hot latin looks. |
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Director, producer and Scrip Writer, Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi is the ambassador to Spanish Cinema. A defender of Spanish Cinema in Franco's Spain he managed to get the international film industry interested in Spanish cinema. He received the Academy's Goya de Honor in this year's 1999 Goya Film Awards. |
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Luis Buñuel is Spain's most important figure of surrealist and neo-realist cinema. |
The founder of Spanish surrealist cinema, Luis Buñuel enjoyed a career as contradictory as his films. A master of both silent and sound cinema, of documentaries as well as features, his greatest work was produced in the two decades after his 60th year, a time when most directors have either retired or gone into decline. Buñuel was a close friend of surrealist painter Salvador Dali. |
