- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- August 8, 1929
- Place of Birth
- Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
- Died
- November 23, 2012
José Luis Borau
Spanish film director and producer, born in Zaragoza. He studied law in his hometown and debuted as a film critic in the newspaper El Heraldo de Aragón. In Madrid, he joined the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas. He exerted great influence on the medium from his teaching at the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía. In 1967 he founded the production company El Imán, Cine y Televisión, with which he has financed his own projects and those of other filmmakers. Of his personal work, two films stand out: Furtivos (1975), Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Festival and a great success for its opposition to the limits of censorship at the beginning of the Spanish Transition, and Leo (2000), which won the Goya for best director. However, both his initial commissions, such as the spaghetti western Brandy (1964) and the crime film Crimen de doble filo (1965), and the controv…
Filmography
movieMy Dearest Señorita
2026 · Original Film Writer
tvLo Siguiente
2018 · Self - Presenter
movieEnrique Herreros
2011 · Self - Filmmaker
movieArrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta
2010
moviePor la gracia de Luis
2009 · Himself
movieAnna's Summer
2001 · Producer
movieLeo
2000 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieNiño nadie
1997 · Director, Writer
movieIlona Arrives with the Rain
1996 · Alcántara
movieEveryone Off to Jail
1993 · Capellan
tvCelia
1993 · Director, Writer, Creator
movieMisadventure
1988 · Alcántara
movieTata Mía
1986 · Writer, Director, Producer
movieOn the Line
1984 · Director, Producer, Writer
movieCuentos para una escapada
1981
movieLa Sabina
1979 · Director, Writer
movieSomnambulists
1978 · Director de la biblioteca
movieBlack Litter
1977 · Writer
movieIn Memoriam
1977 · Producer
movieEl monosabio
1977 · Screenplay
movieLa adúltera
1975 · Médico
moviePoachers
1975 · Gobernador, Director, Producer, Screenplay
movieB. Must Die
1975 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieMy Dearest Senorita
1972 · Médico (uncredited), Assistant Director, Writer
Estado de sitio
movieEstado de sitio
1970 · Producer
movieUn, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
1969 · Tio Prudencio, Producer
movieSnakes and Ladders
1965 · Cliente del café (uncredited)
movieDouble Edged Crime
1965 · Director
movieRide and Kill
1964 · Screenplay, Director
movieEn el río
1960 · Director, Screenplay