Gonzalo Suárez

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Suárez is a Spanish director and writer. Since 1966, he has made around twenty films. His most famous works include Ditirambo (1969), El Extrańo caso del doctor Fausto (1969), Aoom (1970), La Loba y la Paloma (House of the Damned, 1974), Reina Zanahoria (The Carrot Queen, 1977), Epílogo (1984), Remando al viento (Rowing with the Wind, 1988), Don Juan en los infiernos (Don Juan in Hell, 1991), Reina anónima (The Anonymous Queen, 1992), Detective y la muerte ( The Detective and the Death, 1994), and Mi nombre es sombra (1996).

Filmography


Films by this director

Rowing with the wind

(Remando al viento, 1988)

Directed by: Gonzalo Suárez
PHOTOGRAPHY: Carlos Suárez
Synopsis:

Sometime in the 19th century, a ship tries to pass through the frozen sea near the North Pole. Mary Shelley is on board and, while trying to write with her frozen ink, she reminisces about the conditions that brought her to the end of the world in search of her Creature. She of thinks how she met the young and passionate poet, Percy B. Shelley. She remembers how they fell in love, running away together and meeting Lord Byron in Switzerland. She thinks of the night when they all sat by a fire in...

color, 96 min
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