Humberto López y Guerra

Humberto Lopez y Guerra was born in Cuba, in 1942. He began his film career 1960 producing and directing a series of documentary films for the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema, ICAIC. In 1963 he was given through election a scholarship to study film directing at the Cinema Superior School at Babelsberg Berlin, Germany. After graduating from Babelsberg's Film Institute he returned to Cuba where he directed his film "Juventud 67", (Youth, 67). However, he went back to Europe in 1968 and he moved to Sweden. In 1973, he was photography and co-director of the film "Rene Char" produced by the Swedish Film Institute. In 1976 he directed his film "Lorca: Death in Granada", produced by the Swedish Television. In Octuber 1980 the New York Times described the transmission of the film by Spanish Television in June that same year as attracting "one of the largest audiences in the history of Spanish Television. In 1978 he directed two documentaries titled "Spain two years after Franco", produced for Swedish Television. In 1979 he directed "Arrabal", a documentary about the Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal. In 1981 this film represented Sweden in the international television festival Prix d'Italia. In 1980 he directed for Swedish Television his film "Det Langa Straffet" (The Sentence) about Huber Matos. The Sentence represented Sweden in EMMY Awards in New York in 1981. In 1987 he wrote and directed "Ondskans ar" a TV film in three parts about Nazism in Sweden during the second world war. The film was very successful in Sweden and in the Nordvision Awards in 1989.