The Berlinale pays tribute to Carlos Saura with the world premiere of 'Deprisa, deprisa' in 4K

The distributor Video Mercury and the platform FlixOlé have been responsible for the remastering in 4K format of 'Deprisa, deprisa' (1981) by Carlos Saura, which has had its world premiere in this edition of the Berlinale.

Awarded with the Golden Bear more than 40 years ago, the feature film directed by Carlos Saura has returned to the international film competition with a renewed image and sound. The director of the Retrospective and Berlinale Classics programme, Rainer Rother, was in charge of presenting the film at an event where tribute was also paid to the Aragonese director: “Hurry, hurry “It was a crucial contribution to crime cinema and a milestone in the history of Spanish cinema,” said Rother.

In addition to the person in charge of the festival, the filmmaker's children, the producers Antonio and Anna Saura, and the representative of Video Mercury and FlixOlé, Sophie de Mac Mahon. The first highlighted the turning point that meant Hurry, hurry en la obra de su progenitor: “Esta película es muy diferente a lo que mi padre había hecho hasta el momento. Ese año había roto con Geraldine Chaplin y su vida había cambiado por completo. Pensó que debía volver al realismo que ya había realizado en Los golfos, su primera película”.

For his part, De Mac Mahon detailed the meticulous process that was carried out to obtain the version that premiered at Berlinale. “This restoration has been done in Madrid, as part of the private initiative of Enrique Cerezo. It has been worked from the original negative until you achieve 4K quality. The copy that will be seen is exactly the same as the one that the public was able to see on the first day it was presented at Berlinale in 1981.

At the premiere of Hurry, hurry at the Akademie der Künste, an event attended by numerous personalities from Spanish cinema, will be followed by new screenings of the remastered copy on Wednesday the 21st at 12:30 p.m. at the Cinestar Cubix 6, and on Sunday the 25th at 6:30 p.m. at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. These events are part of the Berlinale Classics programme, a section of the festival that since 2013 has brought together cinema masterpieces by viewing their digitally restored versions in high quality. However, the space had not had a Spanish presence to date, being Hurry, hurry the first production in the country to participate.

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