This October 19 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Pilar Miro, an extraordinary television producer, brilliant film director and the person we could take as an example to follow to govern public television. Pilar was also a woman ahead of her time, creative, tireless, empowered and with a strong and dominant character, although those who knew her well define her as “lonely, fragile, vulnerable and full of tenderness”.
it was his son Gonzalo Miro who discovered his lifeless body on the stairs of the chalet they shared in the Madrid urbanization of Somosaguas. A sudden heart attack ended his life and with it he took his best-kept secret to the grave: the identity of the father of her child. In November 2013, the Constitutional Court granted Gonzalo protection so that the identity of his father would not be discussed after a television program was convicted of delving into that mystery.
In the sentimental curriculum of the filmmaker appear the producer and screenwriter Claudio Guerinthe journalist and director of The key Jose Luis Balbin, Eduardo Sotillosactors Adolfo Marsillach y Leo Anchorizdirector Mario Camus or the unforgettable Algarrobo de Curro Jiménez, Alvaro de Lunawith whom he was about to marry, although he left him planted a month before the wedding.
The first woman to hold the position of CEO of RTVEIronically, she was fired from the public entity when she found herself in the middle of two factions of the PSOE at the time. Pilar, who modernized public television, was found an absurd scandal for charging some bills, an issue from which she was acquitted but long after leaving the Entity. Her greatest supporter was her close friend, ultimately the godfather of hers, her son Gonzalo, Felipe Gonzalez. In front of her, Alfonso Guerra and Jorge Semprún, who detested her. The case ended with the charges being dropped.
Classmate in her student years at the time Prince Juan Carlos of Bourbon At the Faculty of Law of the Complutense University of Madrid, Pilar maintained a great relationship for years with the king, and it was the now emeritus who recommended her to be in charge of the production team that covered the weddings of the infantas Elena and Christina. Precisely, her last job before her death was to take care of the broadcast of the link between Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarin.
In his facet as a filmmaker we find great films like The crime of Cuenca, The dog in the gardener o Gary Cooper who art in heaven. The first is based on real events and narrates the arrest and torture by the Civil Guard of two innocent men. Pilar Miró was prosecuted and faced a War Council. The film took years to be released and the director was acquitted.