Felipe Cazals
Born: 1937-07-28 in Mexico City, Mexico
Died: 2021-10-16
Known For: Directing
Biography
Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies. Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.
Filmography
2013
- Citizen Buelna ... (Director)
2010
- Chicogrande ... (Director)
2006
- The Citrillo's Turn ... (Screenplay)
2004
- Duck Season ... (Consulting Producer)
- Digna: Worthy to Her Last Breath ... (Director)
2000
- His Most Serene Highness ... (Director)
1999
- Herod's Law ... (Thanks)
1993
- Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest ... (Screenplay)
1991
- Love Bubbles ... (Director)
- Undressed and Unruly ... (Director)
1988
- The Wrath of a God ... (Director)
1986
- Luz's Motives ... (Director)
- Three of Cups ... (Director)
- The Humiliated ... (Director)
1985
- Dulce espiritu ... (Director)
1983
- Under the Shrapnel ... (Director)
1982
- Viva México y sus corridos ... (Director)
1981
- The Seven Cucas ... (Director)
- The Great Victory ... (Director)
1980
- Rigo is Love ... (Director)
1979
1978
- The Year of the Plague ... (Producer)
- La Güera Rodríguez ... (Director)
1976
- Las Poquianchis ... (Director)
- The Heist ... (Director)
- Canoa: A Shameful Memory ... (Director)
1974
- Those Years as Senador Cap. Morgan
- Those Who Live Where the Soft Wind Blows ... (Director)
1972
- Aunt Isabel's Garden ... (Director)
1970
- Emiliano Zapata ... (Director)
1969
- The Olympics in Mexico ... (Assistant Director)
- Familiarities as Salesman
1968
- The Apple of Discord ... (Producer)
1965
- Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell ... (Director)
- Que se callen... ... (Director)