Alberto Rodríguez

11.05.1971, Seville, Spain

 

Director

Alberto Rodríguez Librero is a Spanish director and screenwriter. In 2000, he directed his first film, crime comedy El factor Pilgrim. His next film was the humorous drama El traje (2002), and with his crime comedy 7 vírgenes (2005) he attracted the attention of a wider audience as well as critics. After his drama After (2009) he directed several episodes of a TV series. Afterwards, he returned to film with the action thriller Grupo 7 (2012). He achieved his first bigger success with the thriller Marshland (La isla mínima, 2014), which was compared to the TV series True Dettective, even though it was made before the more famous series. This film won several awards (best director) including the Goya award and the Feroz Zinemaldia award at the International Film Festival in San Sebastian. He directed the short feature comedy Las pequeñas cosas (2016) starring Jean Reno and his last feature length film is the biographical thriller El hombre de las mil caras (2016).

Filmography


Films by this director

Marshland

(La isla mínima, Spain, 2014)

Directed by: Alberto Rodríguez
PHOTOGRAPHY: Alex Catalán
Synopsis:

The story takes place in a small remote town in a swampy area in southern Spain in the 1980’s. After two teenage sisters disappear, two policemen from Madrid arrive to town. Pedro and Juan are completely different and are trying to adjust to being partners while investigating the case, the town and its inhabitants. The case becomes more serious than they expected in the beginning when they find out that there was an older murder of a young woman as well as that there is a chain of heroin s...

color, digital, 105 min
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