Director

Eloy de la Iglesia

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Directed movies: 13Directed series: 0All crew credits: 21

TMDB ID: 103509

IMDb ID: nm0407061

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1944

Died: March 23, 2006

Age: 62

Place of birth: Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, Spain

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1969 - 2025

Years active: 57

Average TMDB rating: 5.91

Wikidata: Q1333280

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Biography

De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker relatively unknown outside of Spain, despite a prolific and successful career in his native country. He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency in the early 1980s, and his films serve as an archive of the Spanish marginality of this era. Is other words, his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in Spain as "quinqui cinema". His films are an example of commitment to the immediate reality; they were made with honesty and great risk, against the conformist outlook of most movies of its time. Many of this films also deal with the theme of homosexuality.