Historia de nuestro cine will honour Gonzalo Suárez with Remando al viento. The programme will also show his final television conversation, recorded after he received the Goya de Honor 2026 in Barcelona.
The Academia de Cine confirmed that Gonzalo Suárez died in Madrid on 29 September 2026, aged 92. This Thursday, Historia de nuestro cine will pay tribute to him with Remando al viento. The programme will then revisit his final televised conversation after he received the Goya de Honor 2026 in Barcelona.
Suárez received the honour on 28 February 2026. His career crossed cinema, literature and journalism, and the Academia de Cine described his filmography as unusual. The tribute puts his best-known film at the centre of that career.
Gonzalo Suárez received the Goya de Honor 2026 in Barcelona on 28 February 2026, in recognition of a career that extended beyond directing into literature and journalism.
Remando al viento came out in 1988. It won six Premios Goya, including best direction, and featured Hugh Grant. The film moves through nineteenth-century literary history without drawing a hard line between memory and invention.
Mary Shelley and Lord Byron leave England. Their journey becomes a story about love, escape and artistic creation. Mary remembers meeting the young poet Shelley at the home of her adoptive father. She also recalls falling in love with him, running away with him and meeting Byron in Switzerland.
The defining scene comes on a night in November 1816. Friends share tales of terror. Mary gives birth to the legendary monster of Frankenstein.
That film still matters. Its mix of documented figures and fantasy offers a clear way into Suárez's work. He brought poetry, biography, gothic atmosphere and the act of creation into one romantic drama. RTVE and La Voz de Galicia also connect the film with two of his major distinctions: the Goya for best direction and the Concha de Plata at the San Sebastián Film Festival.
Remando al viento is not only the film most commonly associated with Suárez; it is also the central work in the posthumous television tributes that have revisited his career and his final recorded conversation.
The programme will also show a special recorded last April with the director. It was made after the Barcelona ceremony. Suárez had a longstanding connection with the city. He made his first films there and published his first books there.
The link is direct. The broadcast joins his last major public honour with the final television testimony recalled after his death.
Pepe Sacristán took part in that conversation. The actor appeared in four of Suárez's films and was one of his close friends. Fernando Méndez-Leite, President of the Academia de Cine and a collaborator on the programme, also joined the discussion.
The tribute arrives with fresh attention to Suárez's personal and artistic relationships. An earlier portrait recalled his bond with Charo López.
Suárez worked across genres for 60 years. Fantasy and reality often shared the same story. He treated invention as a way to expand life, not escape it.
His work crossed the usual borders. As the Academia de Cine noted in its tribute, he had an unusual filmography and kept experimenting with genres. Pairing Remando al viento with his final special links the film that brought him his widest recognition with the filmmaker's own voice.
Recognition came from outside film directing too. Spanish coverage from Infobae, elDiario.es and La Voz de Galicia recalls Suárez as a writer, journalist and important figure in Spanish culture. The television tribute presents him as a creator with several fields of work, not only as a director.
Historia de nuestro cine keeps the farewell focused. The broadcast brings together the director who turned literary history into visual fantasy and the restless creator who spent six decades working beyond ordinary reality.
