
Directing
Manuel Huerga
Born
1957-10-20 (69)
Place of birth
Barcelona, Spain
Known for
Directing
Credits
29 titles
Manuel Huerga (born 20 October 1957) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film Salvador was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
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La gran il·lusió, relat intermitent del cinema català
2019
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El nou clam
2024
NRThe opening ceremony of the Barcelona Summer Olympics took place on July 25, 1992, at the Montjuïc Olympic Stadium before an audience of over 65,000. This historic event was largely orchestrated by the renowned Catalan troupe La Fura dels Baus, which staged spectacular scenes depicting the history of the Mediterranean and the Labours of Hercules. Music played a central role in the evening, featuring great operatic voices; the audience was captivated by performances from Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Alfredo Kraus, and Teresa Berganza. Although he had passed away the previous year, Freddie Mercury was also present—both on screen and in voice—through the broadcast of their iconic duet "Barcelona," which became the definitive anthem of the Games. Additionally, British pop star Sarah Brightman performed the official anthem, "Amigos Para Siempre," alongside José Carreras.
Barcelona '92 Olympic Games Inauguration Ceremony
1992
6.9The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Salvador (Puig Antich)
2006
8.7Boy meets girl (or vice versa) and they predictably fall in love to follow the canons of the strictest convention.
Brutal Ardour
1978
5.0Lee Renaldo, Pascal Comelade and Ramon Prats perform a legacy-inspired suite on the Velvet Undergroud. Manuel Huerga captured the dress rehearsal and the concert with a single camera, and turned what was shot into an immersive experience.
Velvet Suite
2023
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Behind the camera
NRThe opening ceremony of the Barcelona Summer Olympics took place on July 25, 1992, at the Montjuïc Olympic Stadium before an audience of over 65,000. This historic event was largely orchestrated by the renowned Catalan troupe La Fura dels Baus, which staged spectacular scenes depicting the history of the Mediterranean and the Labours of Hercules. Music played a central role in the evening, featuring great operatic voices; the audience was captivated by performances from Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Alfredo Kraus, and Teresa Berganza. Although he had passed away the previous year, Freddie Mercury was also present—both on screen and in voice—through the broadcast of their iconic duet "Barcelona," which became the definitive anthem of the Games. Additionally, British pop star Sarah Brightman performed the official anthem, "Amigos Para Siempre," alongside José Carreras.
Barcelona '92 Olympic Games Inauguration Ceremony
1992
6.9The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Salvador (Puig Antich)
2006
8.7Boy meets girl (or vice versa) and they predictably fall in love to follow the canons of the strictest convention.
Brutal Ardour
1978
8.7Boy meets girl (or vice versa) and they predictably fall in love to follow the canons of the strictest convention.
Brutal Ardour
1978
5.0Lee Renaldo, Pascal Comelade and Ramon Prats perform a legacy-inspired suite on the Velvet Undergroud. Manuel Huerga captured the dress rehearsal and the concert with a single camera, and turned what was shot into an immersive experience.
Velvet Suite
2023
5.5The many faces of Barcelona are portrayed in this documentary, shot in a false sequence shot that goes across the streets, squares, markets and bars of a city that is presented as both conventional and law-breaking, exquisit and shameless, elegant and dispossessed.
Barcelona, la rosa de foc
2014
5.5The many faces of Barcelona are portrayed in this documentary, shot in a false sequence shot that goes across the streets, squares, markets and bars of a city that is presented as both conventional and law-breaking, exquisit and shameless, elegant and dispossessed.
Barcelona, la rosa de foc
2014
7.0On January 12, 2011, on a floor of Paseo de Gracia, a group of friends who knew him best and who call themselves "Rubianes Widows" meet (as they usually do from time to time) for dinner and remember how was Pepe, his unusual personality, good (and bad) moments shared, anecdotes, traits that best define the Spain.
Pepe & Rubianes
2011
7.0Prades, France, 1940s. The exiled Catalan cellist Pau Casals decides not to perform any more in public until the fall of the dictatorship that oppresses Spain. Pierre, a young Frenchman studying with Casals, tries to convince him to celebrate an extraordinary concert as a tribute to freedom.
The Power of Silence
2017
NRclips from nicos live perfomances, working with garrel
nico/philippe garrel - Arsenal
1986
NRclips from nicos live perfomances, working with garrel
nico/philippe garrel - Arsenal
1986
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Ferran Latorre. Més enllà dels 8.000
2020
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Y el cine marcha
2008
NRJorge Drexler undertakes a short tour in late 2007.
This Very Instant
2009
6.0"14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys "is a television drama, allegedly recorded in 1932, but with the methods, style and own means 2010. With this temporary license, the stars of one of the episodes of the Catalan capital twentieth century discussed the facts, in first person, while a nosy camera helps us to relive what happened in Barcelona between 14 and 17 April 1931, the three-day duration of the Catalan Republic. All with the aim of showing the greatness and the precariousness of a gesture, half improvised by Companys key sovereigntist corrected by Macià, and that led to a shouting match.
14 d'abril. Macià contra Companys
2011
4.3A rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it.
Antártida
1995
NRThis concert was filmed and seven songs ("Hand In Glove", "Handsome Devil", "Barbarism Begins At Home", "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", "Rusholme Ruffians", "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Miserable Lie") were shown in a Spanish one-hour special on the Smiths titled Arsenal. The special also included interviews with Morrissey and Johnny Marr as well as studio songs.
The Smiths: Studio 54 In Barcelona
1985
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Un dia de classe
1975
10.0Pujol's revelation of hidden wealth in Andorra sparked a corruption scandal, shifting his image from anti-Franco Catalan hero to a tainted patriarch.
Parenostre
2025
NRAnalysis of the work of Luis Buñuel in fifty mini chapters. A co-production of Arsenal Films, Barcelona International Film Festival and Ovideo TV in collaboration with the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP). The film won the 1st Prize at the European Biennial for the Conservation of European Cultural Heritage.
Buñuel
1989
5.2Mockumentary about the confrontation between Miguel de Cervantes and Lope de Vega around the apocryphal second part of the Quijote signed by Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda. It also tells the relations of other writers and influent persons on the Spanish Golden Age.
Cervantes versus Lope
2016
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Viure un somni
2005
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Son & Moon: diario de un astronauta
2009
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Jordi Pujol, 80 anys
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10.0No synopsis available yet.
Gaudí
1989


