Ricardo Muñoz Suay (28 August 1917 – 2 August 1997) was a Spanish

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

producer Producer or producers may refer to: Occupations *Producer (agriculture), a farm operator *A stakeholder of economic production *Film producer, supervises the making of films **Executive producer, contributes to a film's budget and usually does not ...

and

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. He was one of the editors of the film magazine ''

Objetivo ''Objetivo'' was a film magazine published between 1953 and 1955 in Madrid, Spain. The magazine was one of the significant publications, which contributed to the struggle for censorship-free cinema in Francoist Spain. Spanish author Marvin D'Lug ...

'' which was published from 1953 to 1956. He was a member of the

Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of '' The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ...

. His film ''Sang et Lumières'' (''Sangre y Luces'') was presented at the

1954 Cannes Film Festival The 7th Cannes Film Festival was held from 25 March to 9 April 1954. With Jean Cocteau as President of the Jury, the Grand Prix went to the '' Gate of Hell'' by Teinosuke Kinugasa. The festival opened with '' Le Grand Jeu'' by Robert Siodmak. Th ...

in the feature film category. The Muñoz Suay Prize was created in 1997 by the Spanish Academia de Cine to award historiography work focused on Spanish cinema.

Selected filmography

* '' Love in a Hot Climate'' (1954 - directed) * '' The Adventures of Gil Blas'' (1956) * '' The Moment of Truth'' (1965 - wrote) * '' The Night of the Witches'' (1973 - produced)

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* 1917 births 1997 deaths People from Valencia Film directors from the Valencian Community Spanish film producers Spanish male writers Male screenwriters Spanish communists 20th-century Spanish screenwriters 20th-century Spanish male writers {{Spain-film-director-stub