He has died this Wednesday at age 98, at his home in Madrid, the Film Academy has reported. The filmmaker was an expert in getting the laughter of the Spaniards. He made 96 films that saw around 90 million people. His films were branded, above all, casposos, but as the academy recalls, Ozores defended that his work policy was “we are going to have fun for a while and incidentally we make a film.”
“Why did I connect with the public? Because my films always have a surprise: unexpected situations, daring phrases … My feature films were not an radiography of society, but a parody. We took a surprise to start and then we adapted it to the moment, to the situation. And without forgetting the main thing: respect the public, which is everything I was and what I am, I owe everything I have, I Interview with El País in 2016 when he received the Honor Goya. So that’s why he never liked the termSpanish: “It has been used as a negligatory label, as if it were flamenco cinema, in a tail suit.”
Born in Madrid in 1923, he was the second son of Luisa Puchol and Mariano Ozores, theater actors. At age 17 he began working in his parents’ theatrical company, doing a tramoyist, assistant, pointing or representative when he needed. “I am self -taught. Go from theater in theater, visiting villages and cities, made me see how the public laughed, what it laughed and how I did,” he said.
In 1952 he began in the cinema with the script of Che, how crazy. For almost a whole decade she worked at the producer of Benito Perojo by the hand of Alfonso Paso with whom he wrote Desert lovers, Susana and me y The night and dawnamong others. In TVE he served as a programming director, presenting and directing series, documentaries and programs such as Telefunken Airportin 1959. His debut as a film director was that year with The two thirty and poisonstarring his two brothers and his sister -in -law Elisa Montes.
Mariano Ozores has the title of the second director in Spain with more films in his name, 96 in total, according to a statement from the Film Academy. He wrote the scripts of his projects when he came home after recording, so he could make several titles a year. Only in 1982 took six films: Father there are nothing more than two, Cristobal Columbus ex officio … discoverer …, The first divorce, All to the ground, THE SON OF THE CURA y ¡What are the socialists!
There was a time when, at the beginning of the sixties, the filmmaker took The unknown time.The title was not mine, that I put himGod chose his travelers. But the distributor told me that God was not profitable. His title was not far away either, ”he told this newspaper. So he turned to popular cinema, cheap
For five decades he worked with actors such as José Luis López Vázquez, Alfredo Landa, Concha Velasco, Lina Morgan, Gracita Morales, Florinda Chic The bingueros In 1979 and that he got more than one million viewers for each of the nine films they made together.
“I wrote what I liked because I am first public and then I am a director,” recalls the academy that Ozores said that he signed 150 scripts. For the filmmaker, the key to comedy was the spectator’s surprise and the representation of everyday life. “I always made the movie I wanted, I have no bad memory of any of them. We had a great time. Before starting a filming I used to tell the team: ‘Lords, we are going to make a movie and incidentally to have fun,”
The burning chapel will be installed in the Paz Tanatorio and will be open on the afternoon of Wednesday, where friends and colleagues can pay their homage.
