![José Luis Borau](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/frFWRG5FXQrMWQp3s72MWUijCrD.jpg)
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 controversial later films Tata mía (1986) and Niño Nadie (1996), have had little repercussion. Between 1994 and 1998 he was president of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). In 2001 he was elected full member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and in 2002 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Cinematografía.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 2.433 |
Birthday | 1929-08-08 |
Place of Birth | Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain |
Also Known As |
![Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4V9ItwqTphfpkN7r52J8pm1OXMo.jpg)
1970
![Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4V9ItwqTphfpkN7r52J8pm1OXMo.jpg)
Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés
5.2/9
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![Cuentos para una escapada](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/8IYHbl7JiNaYPgKnqpVSoB8qjQq.jpg)
1981
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Cuentos para una escapada
0/0
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![Por la gracia de Luis](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/6fiLyXPLy0nd1hWdDRUSgiCXCFf.jpg)
2009
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Por la gracia de Luis
5/1
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![Everyone Off to Jail](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bB9cIOMKVxCROACoofnysPpy9cG.jpg)
1993
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Everyone Off to Jail
6.167/24
A prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. The reunion proves more raucous than the organizers...
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![Poachers](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qqkjAu9FJKTGINYLnNnLiosyoI5.jpg)
1975
![Poachers](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qqkjAu9FJKTGINYLnNnLiosyoI5.jpg)
Poachers
6.5/28
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform schoo...
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![Enrique Herreros](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/pnmaLy7VURR2s5q9gI5FxCGJq6W.jpg)
2011
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Enrique Herreros
6.5/2
The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring...
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![Snakes and Ladders](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/t1TW2uJbhwZL76yQCgaakxIOWmk.jpg)
1965
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Snakes and Ladders
4.8/10
Jose Antonio Amor co-stars with Sonia Bruno and Maria Blanco in this comedy drama about a married man with three children. When his family leaves on v...
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![Ilona Arrives with the Rain](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sghIZp9pODss6DIMlhYDdCPVS0Y.jpg)
1996
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Ilona Arrives with the Rain
6.9/8
Maqroll, Ilona, and Abdul all share a common dream: to sail the world in a tramp-steamer. But who could afford such a thing? Over the years they hav...
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![My Dearest Senorita](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lHbnJHpncwHpY7BbkQ2UUa0FpgA.jpg)
1972
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My Dearest Senorita
6.397/29
A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-min...
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![Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kckWacxveIyeYw4SDckrbONEusa.jpg)
2010
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Arrebatados: recordando a Iván Zulueta
6/1
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