
Known for
Directing
Born
December 14, 1941
Birthplace
Havana, Cuba
Died
September 18, 2008 (aged 66)
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 named Lucia. He later directed many different projec...
2020
as Self
2008
as Interviewee
2003
2003
Director
2002
as Self
2001
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1993
1989
Director
1986
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1984
1982
Screenplay, Director
1982
Director, Writer
1977
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1976
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1976
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1974
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1968
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1966
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1965
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1963
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1962
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