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Encyclopedia > Fernando Trueba

Fernando Trueba ( January 18, 1955 in Madrid) is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director. January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: (Spanish for From Madrid to Heaven) Location Coordinates: , Country Spain Autonomous Community Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Province Madrid Administrative Divisions 21 Neighborhoods 127 Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón (PP) Area  - Land 607 km² (234. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...


He has won an Academy Award for Best Foreign film with Belle Epoque in 1993. He has won 3 times Goya Award as Best Director among other awards. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spains main national film awards. ...


He is the brother of David Trueba.


Filmography as Director

  • 1980: Ópera prima
  • 1986: El año de las luces
  • 1989: La mujer de tu vida: La mujer inesperada (tv)
  • 1989: El sueño del mono loco
  • 1992: Belle Époque
  • 1995: Two Much
  • 1998: La Niña de tus ojos
  • 2000: Calle 54 (documentary)
  • 2002: El embrujo de Shanghai
  • 2004: El milagro de Candeal (documentary)

Belle Époque is a 1992 Spanish film directed by Fernando Trueba. ... Two Much is a 1995 comedy/romance film directed by Fernando Trueba and starring Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah and Danny Aiello. ... Calle 54 is a 2000 documentary film about Latin jazz by Spanish director Fernando Trueba. ...

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Eye Weekly - Trueba romance - 07.05.01 (1077 words)
It was given to Spanish director Fernando Trueba in the early '80s by a friend who couldn't have known what kind of effect it would have.
Trueba calls the final recording session for the soundtrack one of the highlights of his career.
Trueba discovered that the power of the music gave the shoot such intensity that all kinds of people were attracted to the set.
Review/Film; Variation of Farmer's-Daughter Tale, Times Four - New York Times (698 words)
Fernando Trueba, the director of "Belle Epoque," is a former critic whose taste for pastoral French films manifests itself in appealingly unpretentious ways.
Trueba's film may not expose the underpinnings of its characters' lives as knowingly as Renoir's "Rules of the Game" does, but it certainly grasps the allure of straw hats and riverbanks on a summer's day.
Trueba is free to concentrate on his more immediate story, which next leads Fernando to a brothel.
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