José Luis García Sánchez dies, director of 'Las truchas' and co-author of 'Belle Époque'

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José Luis García Sánchez, in the note from the Spanish Film Academy.
25/10/2026 - 11:37 h

The director and screenwriter from Salamanca José Luis García Sánchez has died at the age of 85. He had won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1978 for Las truchas and a Goya, together with Fernando Trueba and Rafael Azcona, as co-screenwriters of a historic milestone like Belle Époque.

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