Jesús Franco filmography

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Jesús Franco (1930–2013) was a Spanish filmmaker. At a young age, Franco had a passion for comics and music, and followed his love of music, specifically jazz. After his father found out about him working as a jazz musician, he enrolled him a religious university in 1949. He later left these studies and went to the Madrid Royal Conservatory and then travelling to Paris in 1951 to where he wrote articles on stories which would be applied in his later films. In the early 1950s, he went to school at the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas (IIEC), later known as the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía He was suspended from this school in his second year, and later briefly enrolled in the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in Paris. By the mid-1950s, he was struggling to become a filmmaker. He immediately became an assistant director for filmmakers such as Juan Antonio Bardem, Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent and León Klimovsky. Towards the late 1950s, he began...

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