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, then revisit his final televised conversation, recorded after he received the Goya de Honor 2026 in Barcelona.
Suárez received the honour on 28 February 2026. His career ranged from cinema and literature to journalism, and the Academia de Cine described his filmography as unusual. The tribute puts his best-known film at the centre of that career.
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 of love and escape, shaped by artistic creation. Mary remembers meeting the young poet Shelley at the home of her adoptive father, falling in love with him, running away with him and meeting Byron in Switzerland.
The defining scene comes on a night in November 1816, when friends share tales of terror. Mary gives birth to Frankenstein’s legendary monster.
The film’s blend of documented figures and fantasy offers a clear way into Suárez’s work. He folded poetry and biography into one romantic drama, drawing on gothic atmosphere and the act of creation. 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.
The programme will also show a special recorded with the director last April, 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 broadcast links 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 amid renewed 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, rather than escape it.
As the Academia de Cine noted in its tribute, Suárez 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 beyond film directing, too. Spanish coverage from Infobae, elDiario.es and La Voz de Galicia recalls Suárez as a writer and journalist whose influence reached across Spanish culture. The television tribute presents his work across several fields, alongside his career as a director.
