Luis Marquina

Directing·May 25, 1904·Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Luis Marquina Pichot (Barcelona, May 25, 1904-Madrid, June 26, 1980) was a Spanish sound engineer, screenwriter, producer and film director. Son of the playwright Eduardo Marquina and by maternal branch of the Pitxot family (whose surname he Spanishized to Pichot) in whose family he had three artist uncles: Ramón, painter; Ricardo, cellist and student of Pau Casals; Luis, violinist; and María, opera singer known as María Gay. The Pitxot family had a great friendship with the Dalí family of Figueras, so the young Luis met and befriended Salvador Dalí. Despite the literary and artistic environment in which he was educated, he decided to study a technical career, Industrial Engineering, specializing in the then pioneering techniques of sound recording, of great application with the advent of sound film. In 1933 he was appointed assistant technical sound director of the CEA studios in Ciudad Lineal, where he was in charge of such significant films as El agua en el suelo, Doña Francisquita, La traviesa molinera and La Dolorosa. In 1935, the Filmófono company, managed by Luis Buñuel, offered him his directorial debut in Don Quintín el amargao. The following year he made what has always been considered his best film, El bailarín y el trabajador, a musical comedy based on a comedy by Jacinto Benavente. During the Spanish Civil War he lived in Argentina, collaborating in two local productions, as co-director in La chismosa (1938) and as scriptwriter in Así es la vida (1939). In 1940 he worked in Rome within the framework of the Spanish-Italian Cinematographic Agreement. Between 1941 and 1944 he continuously made a series of films that were received coldly by the critics (and in some cases in a frankly negative way, such as Santander, la ciudad en llamas), so he interrupted his directing work for a few years, which he did not resume until 1948.

Film	Credit
Siege of Terror1972 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Mr. Superinvisible1970 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Tuset Street1968 · Director	Director
The Viscount1967 · Writer	Writer
La batalla del domingo1963 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Ventolera1962 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
¡Adiós, Mimí Pompón!1961 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
La viudita naviera1961 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Un trono para Cristy1960 · Screenplay	Screenplay
¿Dónde vas, triste de ti?1960 · Writer	Writer
Maribel and the Strange Family1960 · Writer	Writer
Una gran señora1959 · Writer	Writer
¿Dónde vas, Alfonso XII?1959 · Writer	Writer
Una muchachita de Valladolid1958 · Screenplay	Screenplay
El pasado te acusa1958 · Producer	Producer
Spanish Affair1957 · Director	Director
Madrugada1957 · Writer, Producer	Writer, Producer
Los maridos no cenan en casa1956 · Producer, Writer	Producer, Writer
Haute Couture1954 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Las últimas banderas1954 · Director	Director
This is Madrid1953 · Director	Director
Amaya1952 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Manchas de sangre en la luna1952 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Quema el suelo1951 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
El capitán Veneno1950 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Filigrana1949 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Santander, la ciudad en llamas1944 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Noche fantástica1943 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Vidas cruzadas1942 · Director	Director
Malvaloca1942 · Director	Director
Torbellino1941 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Su hermano y él1941 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Amore di ussaro1940 · Director	Director
La chismosa1938 · Screenplay	Screenplay
Un anuncio y cinco cartas1937 · Director	Director
The Dancer and the Worker1936 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Don Quintin the Bitter1935 · Director	Director