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Alex de la Iglesia - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born in Bilbao on December 4, 1965. Graduated from Deusto University with a degree in Philosophy, in his youth he was engaged in comics, worked for some time on television, then became a production designer for an arthouse short film by Pablo Berger called "Mama". This little-known film is about a family that survived a nuclear explosion. One of the heroes of "Mama" is a little boy dressed as Batman.
The next director who invited Alex de la Iglesia to his team was Enrique Urbisu. The fruit of their joint work - the original crime thriller "Anything for Bread" (1991) - received 4 nominations for the Goya Award and brought fame not only to the director, but also to the production designer.
In 1991, Alex de la Iglesia directed the short film Mirindas Asesinas (Mirindas the Killer), co-written with Jorge Gerrikaehevarria. The hero of this film is a bored man who, gradually degrading, eventually turns into a maniac killer.
Jorge Gerricaehevarria became a close friend and constant co-author of Alex de la Iglesia: he later took part in writing scripts for all of the director's films.
In 1993, de la Iglesia made a real breakthrough: the producer of his debut feature film "Operation Mutants" "was none other than Pedro Almadovar.
The film was a huge success and collected a number of awards at international film festivals, and also won three Goya awards .
No less successful was de la Iglesia's second film - the comedy horror "Day of the Beast", which received as many as 6 national film awards, including "Goya" for the best director.
After that, the producer of the film "Day of the Beast" Andres Vicente Gomez invited Alex de la Iglesia to become the director of the crime thriller "Perdita Durango", based on the novel by Barry Gifford "59 degrees and rain" .
"Perdita Durango," Alex de la Iglesia's first English-language film, fell short of the producer's expectations. He was considered a mediocre imitation of Tarantino, a "Procrustean bed" for a talented director. The tape was filled with bloody scenes of violence, and distributors in most countries did not dare to demonstrate it without cuts. So, in South Korea, the film was cut by almost 30 minutes.
In 1999, de la Iglesia presented the black comedy Laughter of the Dead in Spanish. The picture was well received by the audience, was nominated for 3 Goya awards and won two of them. In 2000, the comedy thriller Kommunalka was released, which received as many as 15 national award nominations. In 2002, the director delighted the audience with 800 Bullets, a parody of Spaghetti Western, which received 4 nominations for Goya, and in 2004, he released another black comedy called The Perfect Crime (Goya in six categories). All these films were shot according to the same "recipe": an abundance of black humor and eroticism and an egocentric protagonist who dreams of easy wealth.
In 2008, Alex de la Iglesia directed the second English-language film, the crime thriller Murders in Oxford, starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt.
The newest to date film by Alex de la Iglesia is the tragicomedy "A Sad Ballad for the Trumpet", which takes place in Spain during the Civil War. The film, nominated for 15 Goya awards, stars famous actors Santiago Segura and Antonio de la Torre, as well as rising Spanish film star Carolina Bang, a sexy blonde best known for her role in de La Iglesia's science fiction series Pluton BRB Nero "(2008-2009).
