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Benito Alazraki
Benito Alazraki (27 October 1921 – 6 June 2007) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter whose career spanned commercial features, documentary work, and genre cinema.
He founded Panamerican Films, produced and co-wrote the script for Enamorada (directed by Emilio Fernández), and made a cycle of indigenist documentaries for Teleproducciones led by producer Manuel Barbachano Ponce.
His feature debut, Raíces—an episodic adaptation of El diosero by Francisco Rojas González—received the International Critics’ Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and later a special honor from the Ariel Awards.
He then moved into commercial filmmaking with titles such as Los amantes and later directed popular genre films including Santo Contra los Zombis and Espiritismo, the latter adapted from The Monkey's Paw.
He also produced, wrote, and directed extensive television work in Spain, and on returning to Mexico held senior posts at Canal 13 and CONACINE.
As director
Hasta que los cuernos nos separen
Yo hice a Roque III
Arriba el telón
El rey de los taxistas
Alicia en el pais del dolar
The Ghost of the Lake
Balún Canán
Las tres perfectas casadas
Los jóvenes amantes
Love Love Love
The Widow
Frankenstein, the Vampire and Company
The Gunslingers
A ritmo de twist
Spiritism
Santo vs. the Zombies
The Time and the Touch
El Tigre Negro
The Curse of the Doll People
De hombre a hombre
Amor a balazo limpio
Con quien andan nuestros locos
Infierno de almas
Póker de reinas
Rebelde Sin Casa
El toro negro
The Law of Guns
La tijera de oro
Las hermanas Karambazo
Tin Tan y las modelos