Antonio Mercero

Directing

Antonio Mercero

Born 1936-03-07 · Lasarte, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain

Antonio Mercero Juldain (Lasarte-Oria, Guipúzcoa, March 7, 1936 - Madrid, May 12, 2018) was a Spanish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for his series Verano azul, Farmacia de guardia and Crónicas de un pueblo, and for his award-winning telefilm La cabina.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Trotín Troteras poster
6.5

Trotín Troteras is the disinterested witness of the absurd situations lived first by a lecturer and then by a soldier with an umbrella, which opens when it stops raining and closes when it rains…

Trotín Troteras

1962

Trotín Troteras poster
6.5

Trotín Troteras is the disinterested witness of the absurd situations lived first by a lecturer and then by a soldier with an umbrella, which opens when it stops raining and closes when it rains…

Trotín Troteras

1962

Tobi poster
5.1

A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.

Tobi

1978

Tobi poster
5.1

A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually they grow back.

Tobi

1978

La próxima estación poster
8.0

A seventeen year old boy, the only son of a family of upper middle class, there is a night with a friend of his age. She has run away from home and he wants to stay and live with them, for in their home just burst a major family conflict. As in his ...

La próxima estación

1982

The Telephone Box poster
7.3

A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.

The Telephone Box

1972

The Telephone Box poster
7.3

A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.

The Telephone Box

1972

Good Night, Mr. Monster poster
7.6

Four kids get lost in the forest in the middle of a storm and go take refuge in an abandoned castle. There they will meet and face Dracula, the Werewolf, Quasimodo and Doctor Frankenstein. Despite the attempts of the monsters to scare them and, in passing, recover their lost prestige, the children, with the help of Count Dracula's son, will face the evil creatures.

Good Night, Mr. Monster

1982

Good Night, Mr. Monster poster
7.6

Four kids get lost in the forest in the middle of a storm and go take refuge in an abandoned castle. There they will meet and face Dracula, the Werewolf, Quasimodo and Doctor Frankenstein. Despite the attempts of the monsters to scare them and, in passing, recover their lost prestige, the children, with the help of Count Dracula's son, will face the evil creatures.

Good Night, Mr. Monster

1982

Last Call, Rio! poster
5.2

Pedro, Kiko and David, three friends in their late thirties, travel to Rio de Janeiro to pick up the lifeless body of Mateo, their best friend from high school, who has died under mysterious circumstances. But when you arrive in Brazil, nothing is what it seems. Mateo, "the dead man", has fled, his house is upside down and one of his ex-girlfriends is desperately looking for him...

Last Call, Rio!

2023

Don Juan, My Dear Ghost poster
6.2

Seville, November 1, 1990. Tenorio goes out of his grave, as every year. Similarly, Juan Marquina, a great actor, makes the general rehearsal of a musical version of the play. Since that moment, two worlds come together in a circle of adventures, facing both Don Juans, helped by four beautiful women with decisive influence on their destinies.

Don Juan, My Dear Ghost

1990

Don Juan, My Dear Ghost poster
6.2

Seville, November 1, 1990. Tenorio goes out of his grave, as every year. Similarly, Juan Marquina, a great actor, makes the general rehearsal of a musical version of the play. Since that moment, two worlds come together in a circle of adventures, facing both Don Juans, helped by four beautiful women with decisive influence on their destinies.

Don Juan, My Dear Ghost

1990

Kalebegiak poster
7.0

Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.

Kalebegiak

2016

The 4th Floor poster
6.6

Three friends in wheelchairs welcome a new patient at a children's hospital. Growing up together. All emotions pass the revue. Friendship and hope survive all.

The 4th Floor

2003

The 4th Floor poster
6.6

Three friends in wheelchairs welcome a new patient at a children's hospital. Growing up together. All emotions pass the revue. Friendship and hope survive all.

The 4th Floor

2003

A Time for Defiance poster
6.5

After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.

A Time for Defiance

1998

A Time for Defiance poster
6.5

After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.

A Time for Defiance

1998

Boy Wanted poster
9.0

A boy of fourteen enters to work as messenger boy in a flower shop. His first task is to bring a bouquet for a bride but arrives late and is forced to go to the altar. His second job is to bring a funeral wreath but uses it to save a man who is drowning in the river. Naturally, he is late again. In the afternoon, he carries a basket of flowers to the TV a Spanish movie star is performing. But he is wrong and takes another funeral wreath that is delivered to star in a big stage. Due to customer complaints he is fired and the store puts back the sign "boy is needed."

Boy Wanted

1963

Boy Wanted poster
9.0

A boy of fourteen enters to work as messenger boy in a flower shop. His first task is to bring a bouquet for a bride but arrives late and is forced to go to the altar. His second job is to bring a funeral wreath but uses it to save a man who is drowning in the river. Naturally, he is late again. In the afternoon, he carries a basket of flowers to the TV a Spanish movie star is performing. But he is wrong and takes another funeral wreath that is delivered to star in a big stage. Due to customer complaints he is fired and the store puts back the sign "boy is needed."

Boy Wanted

1963

Las delicias de los verdes años poster
3.0

In the Middle Age, a farmer named Mauro is heading to Madrid following the last will of his father.

Las delicias de los verdes años

1976

Las delicias de los verdes años poster
3.0

In the Middle Age, a farmer named Mauro is heading to Madrid following the last will of his father.

Las delicias de los verdes años

1976

El tesoro poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

El tesoro

1988

El tesoro poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

El tesoro

1988

Wait for Me in Heaven poster
6.6

Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.

Wait for Me in Heaven

1988