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Luis Marquina

Luis Marquina

Directing

Biography

Luis Marquina Pichot (Barcelona, May 25, 1904-Madrid, June 26, 1980) was a Spanish sound engineer, screenwriter, producer and film director. Son of the playwright Eduardo Marquina and by maternal branch of the Pitxot family (whose surname he Spanishized to Pichot) in whose family he had three artist uncles: Ramón, painter; Ricardo, cellist and student of Pau Casals; Luis, violinist; and María, opera singer known as María Gay. The Pitxot family had a great friendship with the Dalí family of Figueras, so the young Luis met and befriended Salvador Dalí. Despite the literary and artistic environment in which he was educated, he decided to study a technical career, Industrial Engineering, specializing in the then pioneering techniques of sound recording, of great application with the advent of sound film. In 1933 he was appointed assistant technical sound director of the CEA studios in Ciudad Lineal, where he was in charge of such significant films as El agua en el suelo, Doña Francisquita, La traviesa molinera and La Dolorosa. In 1935, the Filmófono company, managed by Luis Buñuel, offered him his directorial debut in Don Quintín el amargao. The following year he made what has always been considered his best film, El bailarín y el trabajador, a musical comedy based on a comedy by Jacinto Benavente. During the Spanish Civil War he lived in Argentina, collaborating in two local productions, as co-director in La chismosa (1938) and as scriptwriter in Así es la vida (1939). In 1940 he worked in Rome within the framework of the Spanish-Italian Cinematographic Agreement. Between 1941 and 1944 he continuously made a series of films that were received coldly by the critics (and in some cases in a frankly negative way, such as Santander, la ciudad en llamas), so he interrupted his directing work for a few years, which he did not resume until 1948.

Known For

Amaya
8.0

The Gothic prince Ranimiro and his daughter Amaya have been taken prisoner by the Basques. He will be tried by the Council of Elders, while the Basque leader Íñigo, who arrested him, falls in love with his daughter Amaya, unaware that she is the current owner of the golden bracelet that symbolizes Basque tradition and that, according to legend, the man who marries her will be proclaimed king of Vasconia.

Amaya

1952
Haute Couture
7.7

Tona, model of a fashion house goes to see her ex-boyfriend to claim for some letters and finds him dead. Under the fear that the crime is attributed to her and also because she will soon marry Ramon, a rich young man of good family, she says nothing and goes to work as usual to show models. Meanwhile, the police opens an investigation.

Haute Couture

1954
Malvaloca
5.2

Malvaloca is a good girl who goes wrong until she finds a good man that really loves her, yet her past marks her life.

Malvaloca

1942
Fuenteovejuna
9.0

No description available.

Fuenteovejuna

1972
Spanish Affair
6.3

Merritt Blake, an American architect who is travelling in Spain, contracts the services of beautiful local interpreter Mari Zarubia. Sensing there may be something more going on, her jealous lover is not happy about the arrangement.

Spanish Affair

1957
La batalla del domingo
5.0

Alfredo Di Stéfano plays himself, not as a soccer player but as a man, husband and father. This is a personal portrait of the mythical athlete, in the decline of his career. Film made to the greater glory of the football player Alfredo Di Stefano. In principle it is a portrait of manners of the life of the athlete at the time of professional retirement. Filmed by Luis Marquina, " The Battle of Sunday " mixes the form of a conventional film with the topics of biographical documentaries. However, the film was an important public success, given the importance of Di Stefano in Spanish football.

La batalla del domingo

1963
¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?
6.3

Alfonso de Borbón and his cousin María de las Mercedes de Orleans fall in love and, although both families do not maintain good relationships, young people marry when Alfonso became king of Spain.

¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?

1959
The Viscount
5.5

Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few pretty girls and his assistant, Billette, when he is urgently called back to Paris to investigate a bank robbery. The bank manager has had the key to the security system stolen by a certain Tania. But Tania is killed in a car bomb attack. However, Clint soon discovers that behind this case lies a rivalry between the gangs of Rico Barone and Marco Demoygne, who are fighting for control of the drug market.

The Viscount

1967
Noche fantástica
9.0

Due to a rail accident, the passengers of a train had to be housed in a nearby town while awaiting the arrival of a relief convoy. In the train were traveling Alicia and Paul, a couple who will marry soon, along with her ​​mother, and George, a mature man who looks for a woman he loved. Due to the accident, they will have to spend the night there, where chance lead to a series of events that make the passengers no longer be the same.

Noche fantástica

1943
Maribel and the Strange Family
5.3

The life of Maribel, a disilluisoned prostitute working the Madrid of 1960, suddenly changes when a simple man that she meets by chance without knowing her profession, decides that she is the woman of her life and that he wants to marry her and to meet his odd family.

Maribel and the Strange Family

1960
Tuset Street
4.5

Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing income with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset.

Tuset Street

1968
Broken Lives
7.0

No description available.

Broken Lives

1935
Mr. Superinvisible
5.6

A superhero becomes invisible after he swallows an Indian potion.

Mr. Superinvisible

1970
El capitán Veneno
5.8

In Madrid, under Queen Isabel II reign, rebellions are frequent events. During one of them Captain Jorge de Córdoba, nicknamed Veneno (poison) for his quarrelsome disposition, bad temper and outright misogyny, is hurt and taken to a house where two women, a widow and her daughter, are to take care of him.

El capitán Veneno

1950
La luna vale un millón
7.3

An unfortunate accident changes forever the fate of two men who look alike: one of them is desperately poor; the other one is extremely wealthy.

La luna vale un millón

1945
Así es la vida
7.0

The history of a Buenos Aires family over three decades.

Así es la vida

1939
¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?
7.5

After the death of Queen Mercedes, Alfonso XII's first wife, the problem of the succession is raised. The monarchy needs a heir and the King choses María Cristina from Habsburd to be the futur spanish queen. But Mercedes memories will be against the marriage and the long-awaited son will born when Alfonso is already dead.

¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?

1960
Las últimas banderas
7.0

Two Spanish soldiers, good friends, have to fight on the battlefield during the Peruvian war of independence.

Las últimas banderas

1954
Filigrana
6.5

Filigrana is in the prime of his career. His dressing room is full of flowers and always the same fan: William Harrison who asks her to marry him. Watermark says he heard those same words in the mouth of another man, the Earl of Montepalma, player and womanizer who loved and yet humiliated by a gypsy.

Filigrana

1949
Torbellino
9.0

Carmen, a young Sevillian woman who wants to succeed on the radio, arrives at a decrepit station that goes through bad times. Thanks to her, the radio station will get a much quoted prize.

Torbellino

1941