Humberto Solás

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-12-14 (67 years old)

Deathday

2008-09-18

Place of Birth

Havana, Cuba

Humberto Solás

Biography

Humberto Solás (14 December 1941 – 18 September 2008) was a Cuban film director, credited with directing the classic film Lucía (1968), which explored the lives of Cuban women during different periods in Cuban history. His cinematic style borrows from Luchino Visconti's spectacular mise en scene and is permeated by sometimes heavy melodrama. He started making shorts at a very young age, before directing his first medium length film Manuela, in 1966. The success of this film led him to direct Lucía, an ambitious period piece told in three stories in different moments of Cuban history, all as seen through the eyes of a different woman, each na...

Production

1968

Lucía

as Director

1977

1977

2001

Honey for Oshun

as Director

1982

Cecilia

as Director

1982

Beloved

as Screenplay

1976

1976

Cantata de Chile

as Director

1982

Beloved

as Director

1989

Obataleo

as Director

1986

A Successful Man

as Director

1968

Lucía

as Writer

1962

Variaciones

as Director

2001

Barrio Cuba

as Director

1965

El acoso

as Script

1965

El acoso

as Director

1982

Cecilia

as Writer

1974

Simparelé

as Director

1966

Manuela

as Writer

1966

Manuela

as Director

1976

1976

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El Retrato

as Director

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