Basilio Martín Patino

Director | Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 10/29/1930

Date of death : 08/13/2017

City of birth : Lumbrales, Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain

Martín Patino studied philosophy and arts but also attended the School of Cinema. He debuted at the movies with "Nueve cartas a Berta" (1967), one of the most important films of the New Spanish Cinema (nuevo cine español). The film "Canciones para después de una Guerra" (1971) which reconstructs Spain from 1939 until 1953 by the means of graphical and musical documents was forbidden by the censorship until the death of Franco.