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"Poor Clerics of the Mother of God. High School. School of Law, of course. Second lieutenant; military service in Morocco. Discomfort. Confusion. Half-hearted attempts to work as a lawyer. Poker games, tons of them. Anti-Franco resistance from the guts that gradually reaches the mind. Minor political incident in the provinces: (legal) flight to Paris in 1956, where he’s lived ever since, stubbornly waiting for a miracle that never happens.’ This is how Jose María Berzosa summarised his own life on the occasion of a programme dedicated to him at the Spanish Film Library in 1981.
Going into exile in France in 1956 as a staunch anti-Franco intellectual, Berzosa worked as a film critic, an assistant director to Jean Renoir, a scriptwriter for French TV and a renowned documentary maker with a long career behind him. A regular contributor to educational TV in France, he shot several fiction films as well, where he masterfully brought fiction and reality together. He was also a teacher at such film schools as La Fémis in France and San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba.
In 2005, José María Berzosa was part of the 1st Punto de Vista Festival with his feature film Pinochet et ses trois généraux, an ironic, uncompromised portrait of the Chilean dictator and his deputies.
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