Antonio Román (9 November 1911 – 16 June 1989) was a prolific
Spanish
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film director,
screenwriter,
film producer.
Antonio Román was born
Ourense,
Spain
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on 9 November 1911. Román began directing films in the later 1930s starting with documentaries. His first dramatic
feature film
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was ''
Esquadrilla''. His other work includes an adaptation of ''
Lola Montes'' and ''
La Fierecilla domada'', a retelling of ''
The Taming of the Shrew
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''. Many of these films star his wife, actress
Yvonne Bastien.
Román has won several international awards such as Golden Olive Tree from the
Cine de Humor de Bordighera in Italy for ''
Bombas para la paz'' and an award for ''
Pacto de silencio'' from the
Cork Festival in Ireland.
Román died on 16 June 1989.
Prior to his death, he worked with
Radio Exterior
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.
The Spanish newspaper ''
El País'' stated on his death that Román was one of the most "prominent names in post-war Spanish cinema" directing over 30 films.
Filmography
*''Sandra'' (1930)
*''Ensueño'' (1931)
*''Canto à la emigración'' (1935)
*''Ciudad encantada'' (1936)
*''Barcelona o ritmo de un día'' (1939)
*''Mérida'' (1940)
*''Al borde del gran viaje'' (1940)
*''De la Alhambra al Albaicín'' (1940)
*''El hombre y el carro'' (1940)
*''Escuadrilla'' (1941)
*''Boda en el infierno'' (1942)
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Intrigue
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'' (1942)
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The House of Rain
''The House of Rain'' (Spanish: ''La casa de la lluvia'') is a 1943 Spanish drama film directed by Antonio Román and starring Luis Hurtado, Blanca de Silos and Carmen Viance. It is set in Galicia.Bentley p.96
Cast
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'' (1943)
*''
Lola Montes'' (1944)
*''
Last Stand in the Philippines
''Last Stand in the Philippines'' () is a 1945 Spanish biographical war film directed by Antonio Román. It is based on a radio script by Enrique Llovet, ''Los Héroes de Baler,'' and novel, ''El Fuerte de Baler,'' by Enrique Alfonso Barcones an ...
'' (1945)
*''Fuenteovejuna'' (1947)
*''La vida encadenada'' (1948)
*''El amor brujo'' (1949)
*''Pacto de silencio'' (1949)
*''El pasado amenaza'' (1950)
*''La fuente enterrada'' (1950)
*''La forastera'' (1951)
*''
Last Day'' (1952)
*''
Congress in Seville'' (1955)
*''La fierecilla domada'' (1956)
*''Dos novias para un torero'' (1956)
*''Madrugada'' (1957)
*''Los clarines del miedo'' (1958)
*''Bombas para la paz'' (1959)
*''Mi mujer me gusta más'' (1961)
*''El sol en el espejo'' (1962)
*''Pacto de silencio'' (1963)
*''Un tiro por la espalda'' (1964)
*''
Ringo de Nebraska'' (1966)
*''
A Dog in Space'' (1966)
*''El mesón del gitano ''(1969)
References
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1911 births
1989 deaths
People from Ourense
Spanish film producers
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Male screenwriters
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20th-century Spanish screenwriters
20th-century Spanish male writers
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