Antonio Momplet

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Antonio Momplet Guerra (* 1899 in Cádiz ; † August 10, 1974 in Cadaqués ) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter .

Beginnings

Momplet began working as a journalist in Barcelona, ​​representing artists and translating dialogues for foreign language films. In 1927 he went to Paris, where he worked for Gaumont and worked for Maurice Tourneur and his Maison de danses in 1931. At the beginning of the 1930s he founded the magazine Cine Art , for which he also wrote articles as a critic and film theorist.

Director

In 1935 he was in his home country for his first film, Hombres contra hombres , a pacifist film that set in World War I and received critical acclaim. In November of this year the general director of the newly founded Unión Film commissioned Momplet to direct La farándula with the singer Marcos Redondo in the lead role. During the filming there were significant problems with funding, so Momplet inserted another film, La millona , after which he resumed the planned La fraándula . The Spanish Civil War finally ended the project; Filmed material was inappropriately published by the film's editor after the end of the war.

In exile

In 1937 Momplet fled the civil war to Argentina, where he directed eight films, including Turbión (1938), Novios para las muchachas (1941), En el viejo Buenos Aires (1941) and Los hijos artificiales (1943). Then his path took him on to Mexico, where he worked on the script for the adventure film El corsario negro based on the novel of the same name by Emilio Salgari , which was directed by Chano Urueta. A separate film was made with Amok , based on the novella by Stefan Zweig , in which María Félix , Julián Soler and Stella Inda participated. Among his other films in the following years El buen mozo (1946) stands out, which was nominated for the Premio Ariel 1948 in two categories. There were also scripts for El que murió de amor based on the story of the same name by Théophile Gautier in 1945, La mujer de todos based on the play of the same name by Robert Thoeren , which in turn was based on The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger and in 1946 for Lágrimas de sangre . Between 1947 and 1951 Momplet also directed five films.

Return to Spain

In 1952 Momplet was back in his home country, where he shot La hija del mar based on the play by Ángel Guimerá , which was followed by Viento del norte (1954), for the leading actor Enrique Alvarez Diosdado, which won the 1954 award for best actor at the San Sebastián Film Festival ; Las de Caín (1959), Julia y el celacanto (1961) and others followed. In 1962 the western El Sheriff terrible appeared and Momplet wrote the script for Jandro , which Julio Coll implemented. It was his last contribution to cinema.

Sometimes he appeared in the Anglicized form as Anthony Momplet in the titles.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1935: La farandula
  • 1961: The invincible gladiator (Il gladiatore invincibile)
  • 1962: Due contro tutti

nomination

El buenmozo was selected for the Premio Ariel 1948 for best film and best director.

literature

  • 2001: Manrupe, Raúl y Portela, María Alejandra: Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995). Buenos Aires, Editorial Corregidor, ISBN 950-05-0896-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juan B. Heinink : Estado de alarma: el cine español de la II República duranteel mandato del Frente Popular
  2. ↑ Academia mexicana de cine ( Memento from July 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Momplet, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Momplet Guerra, Antonio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Cadiz
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1974
Place of death Cadaqués