José Luis Cuerda

José Luis Cuerda was born in Albacete in 1947. Having spent time in the seminary as a child, he later gave up law and in 1969 joined Spanish Television, where he made documentaries and cultural programmes. He did not shoot his first feature film for the cinema until 1982. His work follows two paths, comedies of absurd humour and more serious films on the history of the country and the civil war. As a producer, he discovered Alejandro Amenábar and produced his first films. He received four Goyas and died in Madrid in 2020.

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• CinemaDawn Breaks, Which Is No Small ThingAmanece, que no es pocoJosé Luis Cuerda · 1989Cinema