Juan Antonio Bardem

Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz ( born June 2, 1922 in Madrid, † October 30, 2002 ) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter.

Life

Juan Antonio Bardem was the son of actor couple Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro. He studied agricultural science, but began in the second half of the 1940s, to shoot short documentaries. In 1953 he founded the left-wing film magazine " Objetivo ".

In the 1950s, Bardem was one of the most important Spanish directors. With the films The death of a cyclist and Main Street, he won the FIPRESCI Prize, Revenge was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Because of his open opposition to the Franco regime Bardem was repeatedly arrested, his films were covered with performance prohibited. At a congress in Salamanca in 1955 formulated Bardem, Spanish cinema was " politically ineffective, insincere in social issues, intellectually worthless, non-existent in terms of aesthetics " and put " no testimony of our Time ".

For his film The admonition, a realized as a co-production between Bulgaria, East Germany and the Soviet Union biopic of the Bulgarian Communists Georgi Dimitrov, 1982, he received the Grand Special Jury Prize at the XXIII. International Film Festival Karlovy Vary.

Juan Antonio Bardem is the father of director Miguel Bardem and uncle of actor Javier Bardem.

Films (selection )

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