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1966–2003. Eloy de la Iglesia (1 January 1944 – 23 March 2006) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay and socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country. He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the ...
Eloy de la Iglesia. Eloy Germán de la Iglesia Diéguez ( Zarauz, Guipúzcoa, 1 de enero de 1944 - Madrid, 23 de marzo de 2006), 1 conocido artísticamente como Eloy de la Iglesia, fue un director de cine y guionista español. Su trayectoria como director comenzó a mediados de los años 1960 prolongándose hasta 2003.
Eloy de la Iglesia (1944-2006) was a writer, director and actor of provocative films about drugs, delinquence, terrorism and generational problems in Spain. He studied cinema in Paris and worked in 21 films in 20 years, until he stopped due to drug addiction.
- Writer, Director, Actor
- January 1, 1944
- Eloy de la Iglesia
- March 23, 2006
Eloy de la Iglesia. Writer: Bulgarian Lovers. Spanish movies director. He studied cinema in Paris at the IDHEC. He began working in cinema in 1966, though he became famous in the years of the spanish transition to the democracy with provoking films. Drugs, delinquence, terrorism and generational problems are the common subjects in his films.
Director de cine español, polémico y sensacionalista, que abordó temas sociales, políticos y literarios. Conoce su trayectoria, sus obras más destacadas y su estilo personal en este artículo de la enciclopedia biográfica en línea.
De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country. He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency in the early 1980s. Part of his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in Spain as quinqui films, to which he ...
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Aug 26, 2021 · Learn about the life and work of Eloy de la Iglesia, a gay socialist who used genre films to critique fascist ideologies in Franco's Spain. Explore his themes of cannibalism, capitalism, and quinqui kids in Cannibal Man, No One Heard the Scream, and other films.
