Felipe Cazals

Directing · Production · Acting · Crew · Writing

Born July 28, 1937, Mexico City, Mexico

Felipe Cazals (July 28th, 1937 - October 16th, 2021) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. Along with Arturo Ripstein, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Jorfe Fons, he is considered one of the most representative film directors of his generation. His masterworks The Humilliated (Las inocentes, 1986), Las Poquianchis (1976), The Heist (El Apando, 1976) and Canoa (1976), make him to be considered as one of the most creative and bitter-critic filmmaker in the history of Latin-American movies. Canoa was entered into the26th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. His 1973 film Thoe Years (Aquellos Años, 1974) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.

Filmography

• 2013Citizen Buelna — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2010Chicogrande — Director, Writer
• 2006The Citrillo's Turn — Director, Screenplay
• 2004Digna: Worthy to Her Last Breath — Director, Screenplay
• 2004Duck Season — Consulting Producer, Creative Consultant
• 2000His Most Serene Highness — Director, Screenplay
• 1999Herod's Law — Thanks
• 1993Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest — Screenplay, Director
• 1991Love Bubbles — Director
• 1991Undressed and Unruly — Director
• 1988The Wrath of a God — Director
• 1987Dulce espiritu — Director
• 1986Luz's Motives — Director
• 1986The Humiliated — Director
• 1986Three of Cups — Director
• 1983Under the Shrapnel — Director
• 1981The Great Victory — Director
• 1981The Seven Cucas — Director
• 1980Rigo is Love — Director
• 1979Crónica íntima
• 1978La Güera Rodríguez — Director
• 1978The Year of the Plague — Producer, Director
• 1976Las Poquianchis — Director
• 1976The Heist — Director
• 1975Canoa: A Shameful Memory — Director
• 1974Those Who Live Where the Soft Wind Blows — Director, Writer
• 1974Those Years — Senador Cap. Morgan, Writer, Director
• 1972Aunt Isabel's Garden — Director
• 1970Emiliano Zapata — Director
• 1969Familiarities — Salesman, Producer, Writer, Director
• 1969The Children's Hour — Producer
• 1969The Olympics in Mexico — Assistant Director
• 1968The Apple of Discord — Producer, Cinematography, Director, Writer
• 1965Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell — Director
• 1965Que se callen... — Director