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3 unusual facts about Miguel Picazo


Miguel Picazo

He returned to directing with El hombre que supo amar (The Man Who Knew Love) (1976) a biopic of John of God that was produced by the saint's religious order which also backed the film's distribution.

The film, helped by a strong performance in the lead by Aurora Bautista as the sexually repressed title character, was a critical and commercial success and brought Picazo to the forefront of the new Spanish cinema.

The film, starring Aurora Bautista as tyrannical mother superior of a convent of sexually repressed nuns whose authority is challenged by two younger women, played by Mercedes Sampietro and Carmen Maura.


The Man Who Knew Love

It was directed by Miguel Picazo, an acclaimed Spanish director of the 1960s and stars Timothy Dalton, Antonio Ferrandis, José María Prada, and Victoria Abril.


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