Jacinto Esteva

Jacinto Esteva


Died: September 9, 1985
in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Jacinto Esteva Grewe (Barcelona, Spain, 1936 - Barcelona, September 9, 1985) was a Spanish film director, founder of the Barcelona School.

In 1960 he directed a short film with Paolo Brunatto, Notes sur l'émigration. Espagne 1960. In 1962 he filmed two more short films Around the salt flats and Picasso. He debuted in 1966 with the feature film Lejos de los árboles. The film traces some Spanish traditions related to pain and death and was considered by some critics to be an update of Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes, tierra sin pan; it was released in 1972.

In 1965 he began his activity in the film industry with the foundation of the production company Filmscontacto, the basis of the so-called Barcelona School. In 1967 he co-directed with Joaquín Jordá Dante no es únicamente severo, and closed his filmography in 1968 with Después del diluvio. He co-produced Glauber Rocha's Cabezas cortadas. He collaborated in the production of Cercles, by Ricardo Bofill, and had prepared a script with Rafael Azcona, Ícaro, which was never made.

He also acted in Tuset Street.

Movies for Jacinto Esteva...

Tuset Street
Title: Tuset Street
Character: Mik
Released: September 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing income with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset.