Felipe Cazals
Biography
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.
Personal Details
Movies (35)
Citizen Buelna
Director (Directing)
2013
Chicogrande
Director (Directing)
2010
The Citrillo's Turn
Director (Directing)
2006
Digna: Worthy to Her Last Breath
Director (Directing)
2004
Duck Season
Consulting Producer (Production)
2004
His Most Serene Highness
Director (Directing)
2000
Herod's Law
Thanks (Crew)
1999
Kino: The Legend of the Black Priest
Screenplay (Writing)
1993
Undressed and Unruly
Director (Directing)
1991
Love Bubbles
Director (Directing)
1991
The Wrath of a God
Director (Directing)
1988
Luz's Motives
Director (Directing)
1986
Three of Cups
Director (Directing)
1986
The Humiliated
Director (Directing)
1986
Dulce espiritu
Director (Directing)
1985
Under the Shrapnel
Director (Directing)
1983
Viva México y sus corridos
Director (Directing)
1982
The Seven Cucas
Director (Directing)
1981
The Great Victory
Director (Directing)
1981
Rigo is Love
Director (Directing)
1980
Crónica íntima
1979
The Year of the Plague
Producer (Production)
1978
La Güera Rodríguez
Director (Directing)
1978
Las Poquianchis
Director (Directing)
1976
The Heist
Director (Directing)
1976
Canoa: A Shameful Memory
Director (Directing)
1976
Those Who Live Where the Soft Wind Blows
Director (Directing)
1974
Those Years
as Senador Cap. Morgan
1974
Aunt Isabel's Garden
Director (Directing)
1972
Emiliano Zapata
Director (Directing)
1970
The Olympics in Mexico
Assistant Director (Directing)
1969
Familiarities
as Salesman
1969
The Apple of Discord
Producer (Production)
1968
Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell
Director (Directing)
1965
Que se callen...
Director (Directing)
1965