41 Facts About Vicente Aranda

Vicente Aranda Ezquerra was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.

Vicente Aranda started as a founding member of the Barcelona School of Film and became known for bringing contemporary Spanish novels to life on the big screen.

Vicente Aranda Ezquerra was born in Barcelona on 9 November 1926.

Vicente Aranda was the youngest son in a large and impoverished family who had emigrated from Aragon to Barcelona twenty years before he was born.

Vicente Aranda barely knew his father, an itinerant photographer, who died when the child was only seven years old.

Vicente Aranda had a number of different jobs in his home town, trying a multitude of trades before following his brother Palmiro to Venezuela in 1952.

In Venezuela, Vicente Aranda worked as a cargo technician for an American shipping business.

Vicente Aranda fell in with the cultural elite of Catalonia and was encouraged to try his hand at filmmaking.

Vicente Aranda was not allowed to enroll at the School of Cinema in Madrid because he had not graduated from high school.

In Barcelona and completely self-taught, Vicente Aranda found a way to direct his first feature film.

Vicente Aranda had a long and prolific career, making 27 films in more than 40 years as a director.

Vicente Aranda was the editor of his movies since the mid-1980s; they had two daughters together, but separated a few years before Aranda's death.

Vicente Aranda made his directorial debut with the low-budget Brillante Porvenir, co-directing with screenwriter Roman Gubern to avoid problems with the directors guild of Spain.

Vicente Aranda started to use the codes of melodrama with Clara es el Precio, an offbeat mix of melodrama, parody and surreal comedy.

Vicente Aranda cast Amparo Munoz, Spain's future Miss Universe, as a naive housewife adrift in a world without taboo.

Vicente Aranda pursues a career as a pornographic film actress in order to fund a business project for her impotent husband.

Vicente Aranda began to use a more realistic style rather than the stylish aesthetics prominent in his early films.

Sexuality and the past, key themes in Vicente Aranda's work, are at the center of La Muchacha de las Bragas de Oro.

Always interested in literature, over the next fifteen years, Vicente Aranda became Spain's foremost adapter of popular contemporary novels into film.

Vicente Aranda's films have been adapted from short narratives to novels, as well as biographies.

For Vicente Aranda, adapting a literary work did not involve complications of faithfulness, or lack of the same, to the original text.

Vicente Aranda adapted the popular Catalan author Andreu Martin's noir detective novel, Protesis.

Vicente Aranda changed the male protagonist into a female and titled his film, Fanny Pelopaja.

Dissatisfied with the French dubbing of the film, done without his oversight, Vicente Aranda tried to stop the premiere of the film in France.

Fanny Pelopaja failed to find an audience when first released, but now has become one of Vicente Aranda's best regarded works.

Vicente Aranda was one of several renowned Spanish film directors: Pedro Olea, Angelino Fons, Ricardo Franco, Juan Antonio Bardem, Pedro Costa and Vicente Aranda, who were each invited to direct an episode.

Vicente Aranda's career began to soar when he made Tiempo de Silencio, an adaptation of the famed Luis Martin Santos novel of the same name.

Vicente Aranda took a deconstructive approach to the manipulation of popular myth in his two-part biopic: El Lute: camina o revienta, and El Lute II, manana sere libre, based on two volumes of memoirs by the legendary criminal Eleuterio Sanchez, who had escaped from prison several times.

Vicente Aranda became involved in a robbery and murder; was convicted and, at age 23, lucky to gain a commutation of his death sentence to 30 years in prison.

Vicente Aranda tries to start a new life, but fails to fit in as a normal member of society.

Vicente Aranda was the object of massive popular interest by the press and public in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

At the request of Pilar Miro, then director of TVE, Vicente Aranda took on Los Jinetes del Alba an adaptation of the novel by Jesus Fernandez Santos about the Spanish Civil War and the anarchist movement.

Still exploring the passion of love, Vicente Aranda directed El Amante Bilingue, an adaptation of a story by Juan Marse.

In Intruso, Vicente Aranda takes the theme of the relationship between love and death through a passionate love to its ultimate conclusion.

Vicente Aranda returned to the Spanish Civil War in Libertarias, an epic drama with an ensemble cast that reconstructs the role played by anarchist women during the Spanish Civil War.

Vicente Aranda returned to familiar territory with Celos, his third work in a trilogy exploring the love triangle, together with his earlier Amantes and Intruso.

Vicente Aranda created a story about destructive passions that lead to tragedy.

Desire and betrayal, themes that have been recurrent in Vicente Aranda's career, are central to the plot of Carmen, a film based on Prosper Merimee's 1845 novella about jealousy and passion.

Vicente Aranda completed his costume drama trilogy with Tirant lo Blanc, an adaptation of a seminal Catalan chivalry novel, written in the 15th century by Joanot Martorell.

Vicente Aranda has created a niche in adapting novels by Juan Marse for film.

Vicente Aranda set the story in Spain of the 1970s during the process of Burgos, under which some of the last death sentences in Spain during Franco's regime were executed.