Arturo Ripstein is a Mexican film director. Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, "Tiempo De Morir". Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, it began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors. In 1997, Ripstein won the Mexican National Prize for the Arts, the second filmmaker after Buñuel to do so. Wikipedia
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Arturo Ripstein began his career as assistant director (unbilled) of Luis Buñuel in Ángel exterminador, El (1962). His father, Alfredo Ripstein, Jr. produced his first film, a western written by Gabriel García Márquez titled Tiempo de morir (1965). Ripste www.imdb.com/name/nm0728149/
