José María Arzuaga

José María Arzuaga was born in Madrid in 1930 and spent his childhood in the Spain of the civil war. He spent four years at film school, where two of his short films earned him suspensions, and left the country for Colombia in 1960 without knowing anyone there. He lived by making advertising films for a Bogotá company, which in exchange produced a short film for him, awarded a prize at San Sebastián, then two feature films, censored on both sides of the Atlantic. He returned to Spain, where he died.

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• CinemaPasado el meridianoJosé María Arzuaga · 1965Cinema