Pere Portabella

Biography
He was born in Figueras, Spain, in 1929. His production company Films 59 was responsible for films like Marco Ferreri’s The Little Coach and Luis Buñuel’s Viridiana. The Bafici ’06 held a retrospective of his work that included Vampir Cuadecuc (1970), Informe general... (1977) and Warsaw Bridge (1990), among others. The Silence Before Bach (2007) was screened at Bafici ’08.