When he was 24 he left Spain to try his luck in Paris. He learnt French and watched all the films he could at the Cinemateque. He returned to Spain to study Arts. At the university he knew the Communist Party and he started his political commitment. He also started to carry out minor jobs in the film industry as a trainee until he reached a turning point in his career: Un taxi para Tobruk, directed by the French filmmaker Denys de La Patellière. He started the shooting as a translator, as it was a Spanish-French co-production, but he ended up as an second assistant director, earning both every one’s respect thanks to his bright nature and professionalism and a future as an assistant in the industry. After some works as an assistant director to Patellière, he had the opportunity of writing his first script: O salto, together with his friend and filmmaker Christian de Chalonge. In 1971 he directed his first feature film Españolas en París, produced by José Luis Dibildos, with whom he would also make other two films: Vida conyugal sana (1973) and Los nuevos españoles (1974). In 1975 he directed La adúltera, with a script by Rafael Azcona, followed by films such as Libertad provisional (1976), starring Patxi Andión and Concha Velasco, Corazón de papel (1982) and Matar al Nani (1988). He worked side by side with the various teams that Pilar Miró led when she was Director-General of Cinematography and Televisión Española.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Huesca
