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Luis Marquina

Luis Marquina
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Director

Birthday: (76) 1904-05-25 - Deathday: 1980-06-26

Birthplace: Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Bio:

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.

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Fuenteovejuna
Así es la vida
This is Madrid
Amaya
Amaya
¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?
Haute Couture
Haute Couture
La luna vale un millón
La luna vale un millón
Siege of Terror
Siege of Terror
Siege of Terror
¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?
Filigrana
Filigrana
The Viscount
Spanish Affair
Maribel and the Strange Family
Don Quintín, el amargao
¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!
Un trono para Cristy
Manchas de sangre en la luna
Manchas de sangre en la luna
Navidades en junio
¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!
Madrugada
Madrugada
The Dancer and the Worker
The Dancer and the Worker
El capitán Veneno
El capitán Veneno
Mr. Superinvisible
Un anuncio y cinco cartas
Malvaloca
Una muchachita de Valladolid
Santander, la ciudad en llamas
Santander, la ciudad en llamas
Una de miedo
La batalla del domingo
La batalla del domingo
Ventolera
El pasado te acusa
Ventolera
Vidas cruzadas
Tuset Street
Noche fantástica
Torbellino
La chismosa
La chismosa
Broken Lives
Amore di ussaro
Las últimas banderas
La viudita naviera
La viudita naviera
Su hermano y él
Su hermano y él
Una gran señora
Serenata española
Los maridos no cenan en casa
Los maridos no cenan en casa
El agua en el suelo
Noche fantástica
Torbellino
Quema el suelo
Quema el suelo
Doña Francisquita
It Happened in Spain

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