COUNTRY
España
YEAR1975
DURATION99 min
WRITING Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, José Luis Borau
CINEMATOGRAPHY Luis Cuadrado
MUSIC
Vainica Doble
CAST Lola Gaos, Ovidi Montllor, Alicia Sánchez, Ismael Merlo, José Luis Borau, Felipe Solano, Antonio Gamero
SYNOPSIS Ángel lives in a cabin in the forests of Segovia, his only company being his mother, Martina, a passionate and overbearing woman. Every day, he hunts wolves and other wild animals to protect the deer in a wildlife reserve. To survive, he sells meat and pelts. In the nearby village, Ángel meets Milagros, a young woman who has escaped from a reformatory and is the girlfriend of a notorious criminal, Cuqui. Attracted to her, the hunter decides to take her in at his home, where the problems begin to unfold.
José Luis Borau
Zaragoza, 1929. Director, producer, screenwriter, and occasional actor. A passionate advocate for cinematic language and the importance of screenwriters, topics he explored in his admission speech at the Royal Spanish Academy, where he held seat ‘B’ from 2008 until his death in 2012. After a brief stint as a film critic at
Heraldo de Aragón, he studied at the Official School of Cinematography in Madrid, completing his training with the short film
En el río in 1960. Among his most notable works is
Furtivos, in 1975, a landmark film that won the prestigious Concha de Oro at the San Sebastián Film Festival. In 2001, his film
Leo earned him the Goya for Best Director, as well as the Forqué Award for Best Film, the Biznaga de Oro, and the Special Jury Prize at the Málaga Film Festival. Throughout his career, he was honored with the Gold Medal for Fine Arts, the National Cinematography Award on multiple occasions, and the Aragonese Letters Award, among many other accolades.
FILMOGRAPHY
Leo (feature film, 2000),
Niño nadie (feature film, 1997),
Celia (TV series, 1993),
Tata mía (feature film, 1986),
Río abajo (feature film, 1984),
La Sabina (feature film, 1979),
Furtivos (feature film, 1975),
Hay que matar a B. (feature film, 1974),
Cuentos y leyendas (TV series, 1972),
Un, dos tres… al escondite inglés (feature film, 1970),
Zaragoza es algo más (short film, 1966),
Lección de Toledo (short film, 1966),
Crimen de doble filo (feature film, 1965),
Brandy (feature film, 1964)
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