Carlos Serrano de Osma
Directing
Biography
Carlos Serrano de Osma (Madrid, January 16, 1916-Alicante, July 26, 1984) was a Spanish film and television critic, director and screenwriter. A film critic in Spain in the 1930s, he ventured into directing in the midst of the Spanish post-war period, 1947, with three films that represented a break with the Spanish cinema of the time: Abel Sánchez, based on the novel by Miguel de Unamuno, with novel forms in both narrative and framing; La sirena negra, based on the novel of the same name by the writer Emilia Pardo Bazán and considered by some critics his best work, and, in 1948, Embrujo, with his own script and the presence on stage of Manolo Caracol and Lola Flores, with a clear surrealist content that was definitely "a challenge to the mentality of producers and censors", even for the public, and whose value was not recognized until it was awarded thirty-four years later, at the Seville Film Festival in 1982. Serrano de Osma continued directing films until the 1960s, -La rosa roja was his last film-, but he gave up, as he said, "because I couldn't find any stimulus for it and I became discouraged". He continued in the world of cinema as a scriptwriter, with incursions also in television; he was a professor at the Film School in Madrid and also in Rome.
Known For
Brave hero Parsifal, orphan and raised among wolves, must recover the Holy Grail from the hands of the evil wizard Klingsor, a Barbarian chieftain who killed his father, and thus save the wounded Amfortas, ruler of the Grail kingdom. Kundria, a beautiful and seductive houri, and even the Seven Deadly Sins will try to stop Parsifal and his noble quest.
The Evil Forest
Love is impossible between Manolo, a flamenco singer, and Lola, a flamenco dancer. She leaves for America to forget him and he gives himself to alcohol. Still, the love between them is so strong that it unites them across the ocean.
Embrujo
Joaquin Monegro feels a huge hatred for Abel Sánchez, who was once his best friend. Over the years, Monegro marries without love, and tries to have his children marry, but not forgetting Abel so far.
Abel Sánchez
1470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.
The Island Princess
A city is horrified at the appearance of several cadavers of women who have been savagely raped prior to being killed.
The Shadow of a Memory
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La sirena negra
Buenos Aires, Argentina, New Year's Eve. Several people are trapped inside an elevator located in an office building.
Una jaula no tiene secretos
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La rosa roja
A portrait of the Spanish director Lorenzo Llobet Gràcia (1911-76), one of the outsiders of Spanish cinema, and the story of his masterpiece, a cult work that tells the story of a self-taught filmmaker who was born under the sign of the shadows, lights and chiaroscuro of cinema.
Bajo el signo de las sombras
In the final days of the Spanish Civil War, a married couple of Republican refugees goes into hiding in a northern Spanish seaside town. While the wife stays there with their recently born child, the husband continues North to an uncertain future in France.