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Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (Torrelavega -Cantabria-, January 2, 1942). Spanish film director, screenwriter and writer.
Graduated in Philosophy and Letters, in 1970 he graduated as a filmmaker at the Escuela Oficial de Cine de Madrid.
In 1973 he debuted as a director with Habla, mudita and won the Critics' Prize at the 1974 Berlin International Film Festival and an Oscar nomination. Between 1974 and 1975 he wrote the screenplays for Las truchas, Furtivos, and Las largas vacaciones del 36 and established himself as one of the best directors of his generation with Camada negra (1977), Sonámbulos (1977) and El corazón del bosque (1978).
As director
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Virgin Rose
Your Next Life
Don Quixote, Knight Errant
Visionarios
Things I Left in Havana
King of the River
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Semana Santa
Misadventure
Half of Heaven
The Most Beautiful Night
Ferocious
Demons in the Garden
Maravillas
Cuentos para una escapada
Heart of the Forest
Somnambulists
Black Litter
Speak, Silent One
El último día de la humanidad
El caso de Justo Sánchez alias «El vampiro de la Cava Baja»
La Festa
