Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi

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José Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi Lasa (born March 22, 1927 in Madrid , † September 28, 2017 in Ibiza ) was a Spanish film director , screenwriter , film editor and film producer .

life and career

Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi was born to Antonio Ysasi-Ysasmendi Roji (1901-1938) and his wife Nieves Lasa Nogué. The real spelling of his surname is therefore Ysasi-Ysasmendi Lasa .

He began his career in the film business in 1946 as an editor for Ignacio F. Iquino's short film Noche Flamenco . His films El ángel gris (1947) and Canción mortal (1948) followed. Until 1955 he was also responsible for film editing on projects by Antonio Román , Jerónimo Mihura , Manuel Tamayo , Julio Salvador , Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent and Francisco Rovira Beleta .

For Julio Salvador's Apartado de correos 1001 (1950) Isasi-Isasmendi wrote the script for the first time, together with Julio Coll . For the first time he directed his short documentary about Barcelona entitled Barcelona es bona in 1950 .

In 1956 he founded his own production company. His first self-produced film was Bloody Rhapsody in 1958 , for which he also wrote the screenplay and directed. His international breakthrough came with The Secret of Scaramouche (1963). He was a member of the international jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1981 . The screenplay for El aire de un crimen was nominated for the Goya 1989 in the category “best adapted screenplay” .

Isasi-Isasmendi had a relationship with the actress Marisa Paredes , from whom the actress María Isasi emerged as their daughter .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1950: Barcelona es bona (director and screenplay)
  • 1954: Relato policíaco (director and screenplay)
  • 1956: La huida (director and screenplay)
  • 1958: Bloody Rhapsody (Rapsodia de sangre) (director, screenplay and production)
  • 1958: Pasión bajo el sol (director and screenplay)
  • 1959: Diego the Outlaw (Diego Corrientes) (Director, Screenplay, and Production)
  • 1960: Sentencia contra una mujer (director and screenplay)
  • 1961: Vamos a contar mentiras (director and screenplay)
  • 1962: La mentira tiene cabellos rojos (director and screenplay)
  • 1962: Bloody Earth (Tierra de todos) (Direction and production)
  • 1963: The Secret of Scaramouche (La máscara de Scaramouche) (director and screenplay)
  • 1963: Escuadrilla de vuelo (screenplay and production); Directed by Lluís Josep Comerón
  • 1965: Our man from Istanbul (Operación Estambul) (direction, dialogue and production)
  • 1967: Después del gran robo (production); Directed by Miguel Iglesias
  • 1968: El Baldiri de la costa (screenplay and production); Directed by José María Font Espina
  • 1968: One Friday in Las Vegas (Las Vegas, 500 millones) (Director and screenplay)
  • 1972: Summertime-Killer (Un verano para matar) (direction and production)
  • 1975: Rafael en Raphael (director, screenplay and actor)
  • 1977: El perro (director, screenplay and camera operator )
  • 1984: In the weft line (On the Line) (production participation)
  • 1985: Goya (screenplay for three episodes of the television film series)
  • 1988: El aire de un crimen (director and screenplay)

Honors

Web links

Commons : Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mor el director de cinema Isasi-Isasmendi as 90 anys a Eivissa , ib3tv.com, accessed on September 29, 2017
  2. ↑ José Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi , Biografías y Vidas.
personal data
SURNAME Isasi-Isasmendi, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isasi-Isasmendi Lasa, José Antonio (full name); Ysasi-Ysasmendi Lasa, José Antonio (birth name); Isasi-Isasmendi Lasa, Antonio; Isasi, Antonio; Isasi, Anthony (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish film director, screenwriter, film editor, and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid , Spain
DATE OF DEATH 28th September 2017
Place of death Ibiza