Author and filmmaker
H.L. Guerra (Humberto López y Guerra) is an award-winning TV‒film director and screenwriter and has worked for the Swedish Television and as producer and journalist for Radio Sweden.
H.L. Guerra began his film career 1960 producing and directing a series of documentary films for the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema, ICAIC. In 1963 he was given through election a scholarship to study film directing at the Cinema Superior School at Babelsberg Berlin, Germany. After graduating from Babelsberg’s he returned to Cuba where he directed his film Juventud 67 (Youth, 67). However, he went back to Europe in 1968 and moved to Sweden.
He has directed more than 20 documentaries and television series, including the internationally acclaimed Federico García Lorca: Murder in Granada (1980); Arrabal (1978), a Prix Italia winner; the Emmy-nominated The Long Sentence (1981); Castro’s Cuba, the most complete series done about Cuba;
and Ondskans år (The Evil Years), winner of the Best Series award by the Scandinavian TV network Nordvision; among many others.
Cinematographer Lasse Björne and Humberto during the filming of Ondskans år (The Bad Years).
