Rafael Azcona
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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.
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Films (118)
José Luis López Vázquez. ¡Qué disparate!
2022
The Europeans
2020 · Novel
La Reine d'Espagne
2016 · Characters
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
2015 · Self
De los reptiles-saurios en los cafés
2014 · Short Story
Madrid, 1987
2012 · Dialogue
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
2012 · Interviewee
La guerra del cerdo
2012 · Writer
Los muertos no se tocan, nene
2011 · Novel
Rafael Azcona
2010 · Self (archive footage)
L'ultimo Pulcinella
2009 · Writer
The Blind Sunflowers
2008 · Writer, In Memory Of
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
2007 · Self
Rafael Azcona, oficio de guionista
2007 · Himself
Días de cine
2007 · Thanks
María querida
2004 · Writer
Franky Banderas
2004 · Writer, Story
Galindez
2003 · Screenplay
The Green March
2002 · Writer
Sound of the Sea
2001 · Screenplay
El paraíso ya no es lo que era
2001 · Writer
Goodbye from the Heart
2000 · Story, Screenplay
Butterfly
1999 · Screenplay
The Girl of Your Dreams
1998 · Writer
A Perfect Couple
1998 · Writer
Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
1997 · Writer
Pintadas
1997 · Writer
In Praise of Older Women
1997 · Writer
Tranvía a la Malvarrosa
1997 · Writer
La Celestina
1996 · Writer
Gran Slalom
1996 · Writer
The Seducer
1995 · Writer
King of the River
1995 · Writer
Suspiros de España (y Portugal)
1995 · Writer
La mujer cualquiera
1994 · Writer
Banderas, the Tyrant
1993 · Writer
Belle Époque
1992 · Screenplay, Story
Chechu and Family
1992 · Screenplay, Story
Ay, Carmela!
1990 · Screenplay
La mujer infiel
1990 · Writer
Blood and Sand
1989 · Writer
The Flight of the Dove
1989 · Writer
Little Spanish Soldier
1988 · Writer
Pasodoble
1988 · Writer
How Good the Whites Are
1988 · Writer
Moors and Christians
1987 · Screenplay
The Enchanted Forest
1987 · Screenplay
The Impeccable Sinner
1987 · Writer
Year of Enlightment
1986 · Writer
Hay que deshacer la casa
1986 · Writer
The Court of the Pharaoh
1985 · Screenplay
The Heifer
1985 · Screenplay, Story
Don Chisciotte
1984 · Writer
National III
1982 · Writer
Bésame, tonta
1982 · Writer
Airlift
1981 · Writer
127 millones libres de impuestos
1981 · Writer
National Heritage
1981 · Writer
El divorcio que viene
1980 · Writer
La familia bien, gracias
1979 · Writer
Honey
1979 · Screenplay
A Man Called Autumn Flower
1978 · Writer
The National Shotgun
1978 · Screenplay
Bye Bye Monkey
1978 · Writer
Una noche embarazosa
1977 · Writer
My Daughter Hildegart
1977 · Writer
The Anchorite
1976 · Writer
The Last Woman
1976 · Writer
La adúltera
1975 · Writer
Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!
1975 · Screenplay
El poder del deseo
1975 · Novel
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1974 · Novel
Life Size
1974 · Screenplay
La revolución matrimonial
1974 · Writer
Cousin Angelica
1974 · Screenplay
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
1974 · Screenplay
Fischia Il Sesso
1974 · Screenplay
Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974 · Writer
Anna and the Wolves
1973 · Writer
La Grande Bouffe
1973 · Screenplay
Tarot
1973 · Story, Screenplay
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
1972 · Screenplay
Far from the Trees
1972 · Other
It Can Be Done Amigo
1972 · Screenplay
The Audience
1972 · Story
La cera virgen
1972 · Screenplay
Cross Current
1971 · Screenplay
In the Eye of the Hurricane
1971 · Screenplay
The Garden of Delights
1970 · Writer
El monumento
1970 · Writer
Las secretas intenciones
1970 · Writer
Long Live the Bride and Groom
1970 · Screenplay
The Challenges
1969 · Writer
Honeycomb
1969 · Screenplay
Tuset Street
1968 · Writer
Las pirañas
1967 · Screenplay
Peppermint Frappé
1967 · Screenplay
The Harem
1967 · Story
The Man with the Balloons
1967 · Writer
The Seventh Floor
1967 · Screenplay
L'Estate
1966 · Screenplay
The Wedding March
1966 · Story, Screenplay
Kiss the Other Sheik
1965 · Writer
Run for Your Wife
1965 · Screenplay
Controsesso
1964 · Screenplay
The Ape Woman
1964 · Writer
Un rincón para querernos
1964 · Writer
The Executioner
1963 · Screenplay
Death and the Lumberjack
1963 · Screenplay
The Conjugal Bed
1963 · Screenplay, Story
The Four Truths
1962 · Writer
Mafioso
1962 · Screenplay
Placido
1962 · Screenstory, Screenplay
Latin Lovers
1961 · Screenplay
The Secret of the Blue Men
1961 · Screenplay, Story
The Wheelchair
1960 · Screenplay, Novel
Streetcar for Sale
1959 · Writer
The Little Apartment
1959 · (uncredited), Novel, Screenplay
