Carlos Saura was born in Huesca in 1932. After making the documentary Cuenca (1958) debuted as a fiction director with The gulfs (1960). Five years later he would film one of the most emblematic titles in Spanish cinema, The huntwhich received the award for best director at the Berlin Film Festival. From then on, he began his collaboration with producer Elías Querejeta, who fostered the most fruitful period of his career thanks to titles such as Peppermint frappé (1967); The Garden of Earthly Delights (1970); Ana and the Wolves (1972), Cousin Angelica (1973) Breeding ravens (1975) o Mom turns 100 (1979)
Music bursts into Saura's career when producer Emiliano Piedra proposes he adapt his version of [music] into a film. Bodas de sangre by Antonio Gades. The film would eventually become part of a trilogy completed with the films Carmen (1983) and El amor brujo (1986). After the excellent reception of his film Moon Carmela (1989), Saura would return to musical cinema with the documentaries sevillanas (1992) and Flamenco (1995)