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Filmmaker · Mexico

Felipe Cazals

Died in 2021

Felipe Cazals was born in 1937, in Guéthary, France, or in Mexico City according to the sources. Expelled from the Franco-Mexican lycée, he went through a military school and unfinished medical studies, obtained a scholarship to the film school in Paris and worked as an assistant in Europe. Back in Mexico, he made short films for cultural television, co-founded an independent film group in 1969 with Arturo Ripstein and directed more than forty films. He died in Mexico City on 16 October 2021.

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