RTVE pays tribute to director Sergi Schaaff

‘Essential’ premieres ‘Sergi Schaaff: The television beast’, a documentary of production of its own RTVE Catalunya, by Pilar Ruiz Cruz and Judith Fernández Escobar, who remembers the great passion of Sergi Schaaff, one of the greatest creators in television history.

The documentary offers a tour of the great creations of one of the best filmmakers and directors of television in Spain. Start with the mythical Know and win, the longest contest in the history of television, with 27 years on antenna.

In one of the many interviews collected by the documentary of the RTVE archives, Schaaff explains that One of his great obsessions was knowledge. Therefore, the programs that I devised were based on knowledge. Before a blank sheet and with a pen in hand, Schaaff created great success. If I know I don't come, Time is gold or 3×4 They are just some of the contests he invented.

But Schaff touched all genres, such as reality with the program Value and courage, Magacines like The moon or the dramatic. Directed Salomé, an adaptation of Terenci Moix starring Núria Espert, which was broadcast throughout Spain with subtitles in Spanish and was awarded a wave prize.

Imagination without limits.

Schaaff thought that everything could be done on television. Olga Viza talks about Schaaff's "magical potion" and how his way of making television hypnotized the viewer. The scene director Mario Gas and actor Enric Majó highlight Schaaff's extraordinary capacity to experience, invent and create a new television language and a new way of making television.

Essential Also remember the passage of Schaaff for the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, where he was dean of audiovisual communication studies. His students emphasize that "he was a different teacher." They invited them to skip the rules, to transgress, to be surprising. Prompted creativity even in the simplest and basic.

His daughters, sisters and friends of profession discover Sergi Schaaff generous, humble, curious, respectful, the child who with only seven years dreamed of being a film director, but that life led him to a set, where he discovered that what he wanted was to give a vision of the world, of life through television.