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Rafael Azcona Fernández (24 October 1926 – 24 March 2008) was an awarded Spanish screenwriter and novelist who has worked with some of the best Spanish and international filmmakers. Azcona won five Goya Awards during his career, including a lifetime achievement award in 1998.
He was born in the northern Spanish city Logroño on 24 October 1926. Azcona initially began his career writing for humor magazines. He became known as a screenwriter when he penned the screenplay for the film, El Pisito (The Little Apartment), which was based on his own novel. The 1959 film was directed by Italian film director, Marco Ferreri.
Azcona teamed up with director Fernando Trueba in “Belle Époque,†which won an Academy Award for best foreign film in 1994. He collaborated with other Spanish directors including Luis Garcia Berlanga, Jose Luis Cuerda, Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez, Pedro Olea, and Carlos Saura. Azcona was also awarded the Spanish Fine Arts Gold Medal in 1994.
Rafael Azcona died at his home in Madrid, Spain, on 24 March 2008, at the age of 81.
Rafael Azcona Biography / Wiki
| Name | Rafael Azcona |
| Also Know | Raphael Atzcona |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Writing |
| Place of Birth | Logroño, La Rioja, España |
| Date of Birth | 1926-10-24 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 81 |
| Deathday | 2008-03-23 |
Rafael Azcona Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future | Himself | 2007-09-06 | The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often con… |
| Rafael Azcona, oficio de guionista | Himself | 2007-08-07 | A long talk with the spanish screenwriter Rafael Azcona, who’s credited in the writing of more than 100 films. He’s well-known for his colourful scrip… |
| Rafael Azcona | Himself (archive footage) | 2010-09-30 | … |
| Eduardo Ducay. El cine que siempre estuvo ahà | Self | 2015-05-15 | … |
| The Invisible Half: Luis GarcÃa Berlanga’s The Executioner | Interviewee | 2012-02-25 | Documentary about Spanish director Luis GarcÃa Berlanga’s “The Executioner” (1963)… |
| The Little Apartment | 1959-06-15 | Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or “pisito”, in Spanish dialect). … | |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| La Grande Bouffe | Screenplay | 1973-05-16 | Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death…. |
| Belle Époque | Story | 1992-12-04 | In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has… |
| Belle Époque | Screenplay | 1992-12-04 | In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has… |
| The Executioner | Screenplay | 1963-08-31 | An undertaker gets married to an old executioner’s daughter and, although he doesn’t like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after … |
| Butterfly | Screenplay | 1999-09-24 | The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who… |
| The Enchanted Forest | Screenplay | 1987-10-02 | In the fantastic world of the “bosque animado” meet some people who have been transported to this place by a magic force. Now their histories cross on… |
| A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die | Screenplay | 1972-12-27 | A dishonored Union Army officer (James Coburn) leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army…. |
| Sound of the Sea | Screenplay | 2001-06-08 | Son de Mar (English: “Sound of the Sea”) is a 2001 Spanish drama / erotic film directed by Juan José Bigas Luna based on the novel of the same title … |
| It Can Be Done, Amigo | Screenplay | 1972-03-31 | An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter’s life from hanging. The boy’s uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy… |
| Tarot | Story | 1973-01-01 | A young, beautiful woman marries a rich old blind man. While in the household she becomes aware of a plot to kill her elderly husband…. |
| Tarot | Screenplay | 1973-01-01 | A young, beautiful woman marries a rich old blind man. While in the household she becomes aware of a plot to kill her elderly husband…. |
| The Girl of Your Dreams | Writer | 1998-11-13 | A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco’s Spain and moves to Hitler’s Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to ari… |
| The Conjugal Bed | Screenplay | 1963-04-07 | A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding…. |
| Los muertos no se tocan, nene | Writer | 2011-11-04 | Logroño, 1959. The death of a local authority creates a double expectation in his family, the coming of the TV set the deceased bought and the mayor … |
| Controsesso | Writer | 1964-01-01 | A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibiti… |
| My Daughter Hildegart | Writer | 1977-09-16 | Madrid 1933. Aurora Rodriguez kills her daughter Hildegart and turn herself over to the police. In jail she remember the circumstances that made her c… |
| Cousin Angelica | Screenplay | 1974-04-28 | When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his a… |
| El secreto de los hombres azules | Story | 1961-08-11 | … |
| Chechu y familia | Screenplay | 1992-06-25 | Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them…. |
| Year of Enlightment | Writer | 1986-12-05 | April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for chil… |
| The Wheelchair | Novel | 1960-11-03 | Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him … |
| The Wheelchair | Screenplay | 1960-11-03 | Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him … |
| Long Live the Bride and Groom | Screenplay | 1970-04-20 | Leo Pozas, native from Burgos and high bank clerk, arrives to a town on the Costa Brava, with his mother to marry Loli. Unexpectedly, Leo’s mother die… |
| The Garden of Delights | Writer | 1970-11-05 | The greedy relatives of a paralysed 45-year-old amnesiac millionaire go to extreme lengths to help him recover his memory…. |
| Moors and Christians | Screenplay | 1987-10-28 | A peculiar family, which owns a nougat factory, decides to set out on a trip to Madrid in order to advertise its products in a Food Fair. Besides the … |
| The National Shotgun | Screenplay | 1978-09-14 | A catalan manufacturer of intercoms travels to Madrid, accompanied by his mistress, to attend a hunt that he has organized. Its main purpose is to mix… |
| Fischia Il Sesso | Screenplay | 1974-03-06 | A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant cland… |
| La Celestina | Writer | 1996-11-08 | The young nobleman Calisto falls in love with Melibea, the daughter of a rich merchant. Calisto’s servant Sempronio suggests they get the sorceress Ce… |
| The Green March | Writer | 2002-01-01 | … |
| Ay, Carmela! | Screenplay | 1990-03-16 | Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute … |
| Don’t Touch the White Woman! | Writer | 1974-01-23 | A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer’s Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Pari… |
| Blood and Sand | Writer | 1989-09-22 | Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career…. |
| The Last Woman | Writer | 1976-04-20 | Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance…. |
| Bésame, tonta | Writer | 1982-04-05 | A young bank clerk is transferred, in view of his special way of being, to a branch for misfits, where he will meet a whole series of very strange cha… |
| Franky Banderas | Story | 2004-02-20 | … |
| Franky Banderas | Writer | 2004-02-20 | … |
| The Ape Woman | Writer | 1964-01-31 | A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives … |
| The Wedding March | Writer | 1966-02-17 | Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage…. |
| Oggi, domani, dopodomani | Writer | 1965-12-28 | Italian comedy film in three segments… |
| In Praise of Older Women | Writer | 1997-04-11 | In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women… |
| 127 millones libres de impuestos | Writer | 1981-07-31 | … |
| El poder del deseo | Novel | 1975-01-01 | Javier lives with his mother in a modest apartment. He conducts surveys on the effectiveness of ads. This work provides a humble earning for the two o… |
| The Court of the Pharaoh | Writer | 1985-09-26 | In the early Spanish Civil Post-war, in Madrid, during the most hard times of the Franco dictatorship, a group of second-rate players try to get out o… |
| Siempre hay un camino a la derecha | Writer | 1997-08-29 | … |
| In the Eye of the Hurricane | Screenplay | 1971-04-23 | Ruth and Michel separate after Ruth finds another man, Paul. Ruth and Paul go to her sunny, idyllic beach side villa to spend summer. They are having … |
| El secreto de los hombres azules | Screenplay | 1961-08-11 | … |
| Anna and the Wolves | Writer | 1973-06-04 | The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family…. |
| Cross Current | Screenplay | 1971-08-20 | A speed-boat racer suffers amnesia after an boating accident and goes to his isolated villa to recuperate. His relationship with his wife is troubled,… |
| Peppermint Frappe | Writer | 1967-10-09 | Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blo… |
| Airlift | Writer | 1981-12-21 | … |
| El monumento | Writer | 1970-09-18 | Vincent is married to a very sexy woman, who everyone knows as “The Monument”, and envy the fate of her husband. However, Vincent is very busy with hi… |
| The Heifer | Screenplay | 1985-03-06 | During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on th… |
| The Heifer | Story | 1985-03-06 | During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on th… |
| The Harem | Writer | 1967-10-06 | A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride…. |
| The Queen of Spain | Characters | 2016-11-25 | After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Fran… |
| La cera virgen | Screenplay | 1972-02-21 | MarÃa works in a hostess bar in Madrid because, forced by the Puritans of her little village, she had to leave accused of public scandal just for hav… |
| The Little Apartment | Screenplay | 1959-06-15 | Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or “pisito”, in Spanish dialect). … |
| The Little Apartment | Novel | 1959-06-15 | Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or “pisito”, in Spanish dialect). … |
| Life Size | Screenplay | 1974-08-21 | When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsivenes… |
| El divorcio que viene | Writer | 1980-07-10 | … |
| La familia bien, gracias | Writer | 1979-12-14 | Sequel to “The Great Family” and “Family and one more”. A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The … |
| Adiós con el corazón | Story | 2000-07-07 | A hilarious and heartfelt comedy! Meet Juan (Juan Luis Galiardo, Goya Ward Winner for Best Lead Actor)… an unbelievably charming middle aged ladies’… |
| Adiós con el corazón | Screenplay | 2000-07-07 | A hilarious and heartfelt comedy! Meet Juan (Juan Luis Galiardo, Goya Ward Winner for Best Lead Actor)… an unbelievably charming middle aged ladies’… |
| The Man with the Balloons | Writer | 1967-08-08 | Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting…. |
| Martes de Carnaval | Screenplay | 2008-01-05 | Mr.Manolito and Mr.Estrafalario– characters of Valle-Inclán’s plays– spend the last days of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship chasing the plays … |
| Chechu y familia | Story | 1992-06-25 | Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them…. |
| 3 Fables of Love | Writer | 1962-12-21 | “Les quatre vérités” aka “The Four Truths” is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century F… |
| Tirano Banderas | Writer | 1993-11-19 | In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels t… |
| Honey | Writer | 1979-08-21 | Don AgustÃn, a school teacher, visit the family of his former student Paco. Paco’s mother asks don AgustÃn to exert influence over her son to make h… |
| The Impeccable Sinner | Writer | 1987-08-13 | Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical t… |
| Streetcar for Sale | Writer | 1959-10-11 | This excellent short film written by the magnificent filmmaker duo of Luis GarcÃa Berlanga and screenwriter Rafael Azcona was to be part of a series … |
| Little Spanish Soldier | Writer | 1988-10-07 | A young man, son and grandson of soldiers, refuses to perform military service, causing a commotion in the whole family. Finally, social, environmenta… |
| Tuset Street | Writer | 1968-09-16 | Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drink… |
| The Challenges | Writer | 1969-09-19 | Los desafÃos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role of the… |
| Hay que deshacer la casa | Writer | 1986-10-03 | Ana is a middle aged woman who many years ago decided to start a new life in Paris. Now she must return to her hometown after the death of her parents… |
| Pasodoble | Writer | 1988-01-01 | … |
| The Flight of the Dove | Writer | 1989-02-14 | A film team arrives at a more authentic and old square in Madrid to shoot a film. The area is full of children, working families and simple people who… |
| Suspiros de España (y Portugal) | Writer | 1995-01-01 | After the death of the abbot of a small convent the two monks who are left discover among the papers of the passed away abbot letters from the mother … |
| The Seducer | Writer | 1995-03-17 | Cosme, a 15-year-old boy, sets his sights and his libido on his new neighbor, Merche. After giving her a lift on his moped, and getting a glimpse of h… |
| TranvÃa a la Malvarrosa | Writer | 1997-04-04 | The film is based on the autobiography of writer Manuel Vincent. His father doesn’t want him to become a writer and sends him to Valencia law school. … |
| MarÃa querida | Writer | 2004-10-29 | Lola goes to cover the press conference of the Cervantes Prize Award to MarÃa Zambrano. Captivated by the personality of the thinker decides to launc… |
| Run for Your Wife | Writer | 1965-04-29 | Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a four day business trip…. |
| La revolución matrimonial | Writer | 1974-07-17 | Begoña and Pedro are stuck. Despite having been married for many years, now the only thing they have in common is a son obsessed with basketball. A n… |
| La adúltera | Writer | 1975-12-15 | With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thir… |
| National III | Writer | 1982-12-06 | In order to solve economic problems, “Leguineche” family decide to move to France with their limited belongings…. |
| How Good the Whites Are | Writer | 1988-01-20 | The humanitarian aid expedition “Angeles Azules” (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger … |
| A Perfect Couple | Writer | 1998-06-12 | Forty-two-year-old Lorenzo finds himself out of work. Through an ad placed in the local newspaper, he gets a job as a helping hand for an aging homose… |
| Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? | Writer | 1974-04-13 | Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren’t successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Beni… |
| Gran Slalom | Writer | 1996-02-23 | A young officer of the Guardia Civil moves to a ski resort in the Pyrenees traveling on official business. On the way his car has a breakdown and he i… |
| L’Estate | Writer | 1966-11-17 | A young student joins her rich lawyer stepfather and then her mother who the selfish man does not love, for a summer vacation in Sardinia with the man… |
| El rey del rÃo | Writer | 1995-02-24 | An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has alrea… |
| L’ultimo Pulcinella | Writer | 2009-03-13 | An Italian actor (Massimo Ranieri) and his son (Domenico Balsamo) stage a show in a Parisian theater…. |
| Las secretas intenciones | Writer | 1970-07-29 | Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. The relationship betwee… |
| Ready, Aim, Fire! | Writer | 1975-09-05 | Madrid, in the forties. In the post-war period, Paca, a chorus girl who aspires to enter the Celia Gámez Company, returns to Madrid after a provincia… |
| El paraÃso ya no es lo que era | Writer | 2001-05-11 | Mercedes (Neus Asensi) Mariángeles (Ana Risueño) and Carmen (Miriam Diaz Aroca) need to escape something: the stress of the job, a divorce or a gray… |
| A Man Called Autumn Flower | Writer | 1978-09-24 | Lluis de Serracant leads a double life. By day he’s a young lawyer, scion of a Catalan bourgeois family. At night he’s a transvestite performer known … |
| National Heritage | Writer | 1981-03-26 | The monarchy has returned. The Leguineche, too…. |
| Il fischio al naso | Writer | 1967-08-06 | In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose… |
| Bye Bye Monkey | Writer | 1978-02-24 | In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anar… |
| The Anchorite | Writer | 1976-10-27 | Eleven years ago Fernando Tobajas, a man of a certain age, decided to live in the bathroom, in which he created a small apartment, and never leaves it… |
| Las pirañas | Screenplay | 1967-10-18 | Ricardo is an executive who has great success with women and behaves almost like a play-boy. His wife, Carmen, an attractive housewife without childre… |
| The Blind Sunflowers | Writer | 2008-01-01 | Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardi… |
| Pintadas | Writer | 1997-11-20 | Diego and Clara have met recently and suddenly have the urge to live together. Afterwards, They find a house to live in. However, strange things start… |
| Placido | Screenplay | 1962-06-27 | In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless pers… |
| Un rincón para querernos | Writer | 1964-01-01 | … |
| Latin Lovers | Writer | 1961-12-22 | A dozen sketches: (1) how it is not easy for parents to reveal the mystery of birth to their young children. (2) how the first kiss can be pleasant fo… |
| Una noche embarazosa | Writer | 1977-12-29 | An Italian taxicab driver is used as a “breeding man” to save the inheritance of a wealthy family in Mexico…. |
| The Europeans | Writer | 2020-11-20 | Spain at the end of the 50s. Miguel and Antonio, both single and in their early 30s, go on a trip to Ibiza, lured by the European sexual myth and the … |
| De los reptiles-saurios en los cafés | Writer | 2014-01-01 | Time and again, the quiet routine of a nameless cafe, located in a town that is also nameless, and in an unspecified era, is unsettle by the attack of… |
| Los desastres de la guerra | Writer | 1983-01-01 | The Disasters of War is a series of 82 prints created between 1810 and 1820 by the Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya…. |
| Don Chisciotte | Writer | 1984-04-12 | A self-proclaimed “knight” and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking “giants” that are really windmills in his attempt to win t… |
| La Guerra del Cerdo | Writer | 2012-01-01 | In an alternative reality, a man who is entering old age faces a society in which the young eliminate the old…. |
| La mujer infiel | Writer | 1990-03-02 | A man in love with an unfaithful woman…. |
| La mujer cualquiera | Writer | 1994-10-06 | The whatever woman…. |
| Dillinger Is Dead | Idea | 1969-01-24 | A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen…. |
| Dillinger Is Dead | Writer | 1969-01-24 | A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen…. |
| To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday | Original Story | 1974-08-22 | Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-cont… |
| Placido | Screenstory | 1962-06-27 | In a small Spanish town, during the Christmas holidays, a group of rich old ladies organize a peculiar event that consists of inviting a homeless pers… |
| Mafioso | Screenplay | 1962-10-24 | When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades’ old oath forces him to fulfill … |
| Honeycomb | Screenplay | 1969-07-14 | Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into hor… |
| The Audience | Story | 1972-03-31 | Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Far from the Trees | Other | 1972-05-19 | An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate relationship with atavism and superstition, with … |
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