Luis Buñuel

Spanish director and filmmaker, he was born in Calanda (Teruel) in 1900, having graduated in History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters in Madrid. During this time he became acquainted with Jose Moreno Villa, Eduardo Marquina, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and formed a strong friendship with Salvador Dali and Federico García Lorca, colleagues at the student residence where he lived until 1925. He published some texts in literary magazines.
He lived in Paris until 1929, where he enrolled in the Film Academy and wrote film criticism. He co-wrote "Hamlet" with Jose Bello, the first surrealist work of Spanish theater, which was staged in Paris. He never lost his literary and poetic vein. His first two films were made in collaboration with the painter Salvador Dalí: "Un Chien Andalou" (An Andalusian Dog), in 1928, and "L'Âge d'Or" (banned for 49 years), in 1930. "Shocking," "provocative," "controversial," and "innovative" will always be terms associated with the cinematic work of this director, who will forever transform cinematic aesthetics. He married Jeanne Rucar in Paris in 1934.
In Madrid, he was responsible for dubbing at Warner Brothers. In 1938, he traveled to the United States of America, where he worked in dubbing for Warner Brothers, but in 1946 he settled in Mexico, obtaining Mexican citizenship. He filmed "Nazarín," for which he won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
His roots lie in surrealism. His later films, such as "The Exterminating Angel," "Belle de Jour," "The Phantom of Liberty," "That Obscure Object of Desire," among others, are publicly recognized and many receive awards at film festivals around the world. He returns to live in Paris, but dies in Mexico in 1983.