José Luis Cuerda (born 18 February 1947 in Albacete, Spain) is director, screenwriter and producer of film Spanish.
He began to study law, but leaves it in three years and became engineer of radio and television broadcasting. In 1969 joined Spanish television, making reports and documentaries for informational services (five years made more than 500 articles and documentaries). From 1985 to 1987 he worked as a professor at the Faculty of fine arts from the University of Salamanca.
Of various short films in 1982 he directed his first feature film pairs and nones, which would place him in the field of the directors who grow the so-called “madrileña comedy” (Fernando Colomo is another of its most important representatives).
His next film the living forest (1987) will inaugurate a new stage caracterizada by what can be termed as “absurd humor” career. A year later would work enshrined it as a filmmaker, apart from being a box office success: Sunrise, which is no small… read more
for people familiar with the literary works of Manuel Rivas and the spanish language.this is/can be an impressive film.it's amazing how well put together the director mixed these stories together.a bond of friendship between a teacher and student who is getting to know the fascinating things in life.the film goes through his childhood of how beautiful these things were and how we must face reality
Completely agree but it's important to recall that Manuel Rivas is a Galician writer that wrote the book that this film is based on in Galician ("O lapiz do carpintero" - "The pencil of the carpenter"), and later on, they translated it to Spanish and many other languages. Good film, but it still far away from "Amanece que no es poco", "The blind sunflowers" or "El Bosque Animado".
A heartbreaking microcosmos of spain's socio political situation in the eve of their civil war. told with serenity and wisdom.