death_date death_place years_active birth_place birth_date birthname article_title name occupation
23 march 2006 madrid , spain 1966 -- 2003 zarautz , spain 1 january 1944 eloy germán de la iglesia diégue eloy de la iglesia
 eloy de la iglesia filmmaker
eloy de la iglesia

eloy de la iglesia -lrb- january 1 , 1944 -- march 23 , 2006 -rrb- was a spanish screenwriter and film director .
de la iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country .
he is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency in the early 1980s .
part of his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in spain as quinqui films , to which he contributed with several works .
his film are an example of commitment to the immediate reality .
they were made with honesty and great risk , against the conformist outlook of most movies of its time .
beyond their debatable aesthetic merits , his film served a document of the spanish marginality of the late seventies and early eighties , and they have the stamp of his strong personality .
many of this films also deal with the theme of homosexuality .
