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name: "Elías Querejeta"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elias-querejeta"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "27 October 1934"
died: "9 June 2013"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T10:42:30.417572+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Elías Querejeta

Producer. Born 27 October 1934 in Hernani, Donostia, Euskadi, Spain. Died 9 June 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 27 October 1934, Hernani, Donostia, Euskadi, Spain
- **Died:** 9 June 2013

## Biography

Elías Querejeta was a Spanish film producer. Born in Hernani, Gipuzkoa, in 1934, he began his career in football, playing for Real Sociedad before moving to Madrid in the late 1950s to establish a production company.

He produced more than fifty films, many in collaboration with directors including Carlos Saura (thirteen films, among them *The Hunt* (1966), *Peppermint Frappé* (1967), *Cría!* (1976) and *Deprisa, deprisa* (1981)), Víctor Erice (*The Spirit of the Beehive* (1973) and *El Sur* (1983)), Montxo Armendáriz and Fernando León de Aranoa (*Mondays in the Sun* (2002)). He also produced several films by his daughter, the director Gracia Querejeta.

Querejeta died in Madrid in 2013.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com, english.elpais.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Spirit of the Beehive* (1973), Fi1m 87, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-spirit-of-the-beehive.md)

## Also known for

- *The City of Lost Children* (1995), Producer
- *Cria!* (1976), Producer
- *Mondays in the Sun* (2002), Producer
- *El Sur* (1983), Producer
- *Faster, Faster* (1981), Producer
- *The Hunt* (1966), Producer
- *Anna and the Wolves* (1973), Producer
- *Barrio* (1998), Producer

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