Agustín Díaz Yanes Net Worth is
$1.6 Million

Mini Biography

Blessed in Madrid, Spain, in 1950, his youth was marked with the republicanism of his family members against dictator Francisco Franco, champion from the Spanish civil battle. He spent his youth in schools operate by republican instructors where he received a liberal education. In the seventies he got a qualification ever sold and worked for a long time being a literary critic. Interested by movie theater he composed some screenplays. A few of after that were modified in the mid-eighties. Those movies were thrillers regarding strong female individuals. For “Baton Rouge” and “A solas contigo” both starred by spanish celebrity Victoria Abril he was nominated for greatest original screenplay with the Spanish Academy. In 1990 he was assistant to director Pedro Almodovar in the shooting of “Atame” played by Spanish famous actors Antonio Banderas and Victoria Abril. Because of his reputation seeing that screenwriter as well as the support of Victoria Abril he could create his initial film as movie director: “Nadie hablara de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto”. It became the best strike of spanish movie theater at its discharge in 1995. In the Celebration de San Sebastian that film won several honours (including best celebrity). “Nadie hablara de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto” also gained 8 awards in the Spanish academy (including greatest film, best brand-new director, and greatest actress). Motivated by filmmakers like Martin Scorsese or Paul Schrader, “Nadie hablará de nosotras …” stunned viewers and critics by its assault and by the dark tale of redemption of Gloria Duque, the primary character from the movie. Regardless of the success of his initial movie, Diaz Yanes spent a couple of years trying to produce a brand-new picture, entitled “Madrid Sur”, a science-fiction movie create in the administrative centre of Spain, but was struggling to produce it because of financial problems. In 2001, he could feature together both most worldwide spanish actresses in his second movie “Sin noticias de Dios” an excellent comedy that received 11 nominations for the Spanish Academy awards (including best picture and director) but disappointed lots of the fans of his initial movie. In March 2006, he’ll started the shooting of his third film “Capitán Alatriste”, an adaptation of Arturo Perez Reverte’s best-seller. Starred by LOTR’s superstar Viggo Mortensen it tells the storyplot of Alatriste a pessimistic Spanish soldier which will need to survive in the harmful and decadent Spain from the XVIIth century.

Known for movies