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Gabriel Doménech González, Profesor Ayudante Específico, Departamento de Comunicación, Facultad de Humanidades, Comunicación y Documentación (UC3M), Universidad Carlos III

Carlos Saura, the filmmaker who took Spanish identity all over the planet

Portrait of Carlos Saura in 2019. Mario A. P. / Flickr, CC BY-SA

On more than one occasion he declared that if he stopped working, he would die. And, indeed, death caught up with him at work.

On Friday 10 February 2023, Carlos Saura, one of the key figures of Spanish cinema, passed away. He had just released a documentary film (Las paredes hablan), signed the stage direction of a play about Spanish poet Federico García Lorca (Lorca por Saura) and was trying to set up a long-awaited film project about Picasso.

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