Humberto Solás

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Humberto Solás, born in 1941, is a Cuban Film director, credited with directing the classic film Lucía (1968). His cinematic style borrows from Visconti's spectacular mise en scene and is permeated by sometimes heavy melodrama. He started making shorts at a very young age, before directing his first medium length film Manuela, in 1966. The success of this film led him to direct Lucía, an ambitious period piece told in three stories in different moments of Cuban history, all as seen through the eyes of a different woman, each named Lucia. He later directed many different projects with a degree of success, but he never matched again the international acclaim of his first feature.

Solás has won 13 awards for filmmaking and been nominated for an additional 9.^[1]. He has twice served on the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival, in 1977 and 1997.