Alfonso Corona Blake (2 January 1919 – 21 January 1999) was a Mexican
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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. He directed 27 films between 1956 and 1971. His film ''
The Road of Life
''The Road of Life'' ( es, El camino de la vida) is a 1956 Mexican drama film directed by Alfonso Corona Blake. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Honourable Mention (Director) award.
Cast
* Luis Alba
* Guillermo Bravo S ...
'' won the Honourable Mention (Director) award at the
6th Berlin International Film Festival
The 6th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June to 3 July 1956. The FIAPF granted the festival the "A status" during this year, which was previously only reserved for Cannes and Venice. The awards for the first time, we ...
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Selected filmography
* ''
The Road of Life
''The Road of Life'' ( es, El camino de la vida) is a 1956 Mexican drama film directed by Alfonso Corona Blake. At the 6th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Honourable Mention (Director) award.
Cast
* Luis Alba
* Guillermo Bravo S ...
'' (1956)
* ''
Happiness
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'' (1957)
* ''
El mundo de los vampiros
'' El mundo de los vampiros'' (''The World of the Vampires'') is a 1961 Mexican horror film, directed by Alfonso Corona Blake. The film is about a vampire, Count Sergio Subotai, who seeks revenge against the descendant of an enemy family. The ...
'' (1961)
* ''
Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro
''Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro'' (also known as ''Samson vs. the Vampire Women'') is a 1962 supernatural action horror film starring the wrestling superhero Santo. The film was featured on a 1995 episode of '' Mystery Science Theater 3000''.
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'' (1962)
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1919 births
1999 deaths
Ariel Award winners
Best Director Ariel Award winners
Mexican film directors
People from Autlán, Jalisco
Mexican people of Scottish descent
20th-century Mexican screenwriters
20th-century Mexican male writers
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