Jesús Díaz

Jesús Díaz was born in Havana on 14 October 1941. He worked in the philosophy department of the University of Havana, founded and edited the magazine El Caimán Barbudo, and in 1966 received the Casa de las Américas prize for Los años duros. Coming to cinema, he made the documentary 55 hermanos in 1978, then the fiction film Polvo rojo in 1981. A fellow in Berlin in the early nineties, he did not return, taught in Germany and then in Madrid, where in 1996 he founded the magazine Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana. He died in Madrid on 2 May 2002.

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• Feature filmLejaníaJesús Díaz · 1985Cinema