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Date of Birth

30 October 1930, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death

4 March 1992, New York, USA (AIDS)

Birth Name

Nestor Almendros Cuyas

Mini Biography

One of the highest appraised contemporary cinematographers. He was born in Spain but moved to Cuba by age 18 to join his exiled anti-Franco father. In Havana, he founded a cineclub and wrote film reviews. Then, he went on to study in Rome at the Centro Sperimentale. He directed six shorts in Cuba and two in New York. After the 1959 Cuban revolution, he returned and made several documentaries for the Castro-regime. But after two of his shorts (Gente en la playa (1960) and La Tumba Francesca) had been banned, he moved to Paris. There he became the favourite cameraman of Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut. In 1978, he started his impressive Hollywood-career. In his later years, he co-directed two documentaries about the human rights situation in Cuba: Mauvaise conduite (1984) (about the persecution of gay people) and Nadie escuchaba (1987). He shot several prestigious commercials for Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein. Nestor Almendros died of AIDS.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Chris Abbenhuis

Trivia

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1985.

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1989.

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