Fernando Trueba
Date of birth: 1955-01-18
Place of birth: Madrid, Spain
Known for: Directing
Also known as: Fernando Rodríguez Trueba
Biography
Trueba studied Cinematography at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, was cinema critic for the newspaper 'El País' and for 'La Guía del Ocio' and also founded the journal "Casablanca". At the movies his first success was 'Opera Prima' (1980) following the style of the "comedia madrileña". He had major success with 'Sé infiel y no mires con quién' (1985) starting a longer colaboration with the producer Andrés Vicente Gómez. He won the second Foreign Film Academy Award for Spain in 1993 with 'Belle Epoque'.
Movie Credits
FFG, el último gran conversador
2021-08-27
Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921-2007), actor, writer, playwright and film director, was for decades one
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022-08-12
Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the
Berlanga!!
2021-10-26
How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relev
Enrique Morente: flamenco impuro
2021-11-24
Enrique Morente's three sons tell the story of their father: the most revolutionary flamenco in hist
El último truco
2008-11-20
Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1
Aragón rodado
2014-04-24
A look at the Aragonese countryside, star of the movie screen, accompanied by various trades of cine
Spanish Fly
1998-09-10
A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But tha
The Critic
2022-09-16
A portrait of film critic Carlos Boyero, one of the most followed and feared figures in Spanish cine
Miradas del cine español
2024-03-08
Reflections on Spanish cinema, based on seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers, analyzing thei
Summers el rebelde
2024-03-15
Winner of the Silver Shell for Best Director for his debut film, Del rosa... al amarillo, Manolo Sum
Un cine como tú en un país como éste
2010-10-26
Salamanca director Chema de la Peña recalls in this feature documentary professionals early filmmake
The Other Way Around
2024-08-28
After 15 years as a couple, Ale and Alex decide to throw a party to celebrate their separation, leav
Rafael Azcona
2010-09-30
Madame Cinéma
2018-05-02
A documentary on Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf, who won the Cannes International Critics Pr
¡Ay, Carmen!
2018-10-29
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director
Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law
1998-03-13
A former policeman enlists his nerdy friend to help bust drug traffickers moving heroin through a Ch
Stories of Our Cinema
2019-11-22
In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country ar
Luis García Berlanga: pasado, presente y futuro del cine español
2021-07-23
A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perduran
Equipo Crónica. Arte de trinchera
2025-02-28
Aquí
Child refugee David befriends Simón on a boat travelling to a no-man’s land. Upon their arrival, Sim