Juan Xiol Marchal

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Juan Xiol Marchal (born September 14, 1921 in Bilbao , † 1977 in Barcelona ) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter .

Life

Xiol Marchal was born to a Spanish father and a French mother and, after finishing school, took courses at the IDHEC film school in Paris. Shortly after the end of the war he was responsible for a few short films before he presented his first feature film El castillo de Rochal at the age of 25 in 1946 . The script for a love triangle in an aristocratic environment also came from Xiol Marchal. During the 1950s he made only two films, the 1961 crime film Sendas cruzadas and the acclaimed drama La extranjera in 1965 . After that he was a representative of the Spanish versions of spaghetti westerns . For the production company Balcázar PC , he made two films in Venezuela in 1967 , then one in the cyclist milieu with Las piernas de la serpiente (1970). From 1972 he also turned to the soft erotic film ( Los farsantes del amor ), as its figurehead he was until his early death.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1946: El castillo de Rochal
  • 1965: Cinco pistolas de Texas (co-director)
  • 1965: Río Maldito
  • 1967: Spit in the face of the devil (El hombre de Caracas)
  • 1976: Sexy, amor y fantasia

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personal data
SURNAME Xiol Marchal, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Xiol, Juan; Marchal, Juan X.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilbao
DATE OF DEATH 1977
Place of death Barcelona