Antonio Mercero

Directing

Antonio Mercero

Born — Died

1936-03-07 — 2018-05-12

Place of birth

Lasarte, Guipúzcoa, País Vasco, Spain

Known for

Directing

Credits

39 titles

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.

Known for

¡Qué grande es el cine! poster
NR

TVE broadcasted this program on the occasion of the first centenary of the history of cinema, a feature film was broadcast weekly that, due to its characteristics, was of interest within the cinematographic world, directed and moderated by José Luis Garci, with the assistance of three experts , belonging to the world of cinema and literature, which debated following the screening of the chosen film.

¡Qué grande es el cine!

1995

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

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

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

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

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

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

La Gioconda está triste poster
8.0

The Mona Lisa loses her famous smile, and so does the rest of the world.

La Gioconda está triste

1977

¿Y tú quién eres? poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

¿Y tú quién eres?

2007

¿Y tú quién eres? poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

¿Y tú quién eres?

2007

La guerra de papá poster
5.5

Spain, March 1964: Quico is a very naughty child of three belonging to a wealthy middle-class family. Since Cristina's birth, he feels he has lost the privileged position of "prince" of the house for his eight months old sister. So, with his brother Juan, who is eight years old and is quite disobedient, spend their time committing prank after prank, causing the resulting anger of his mother, the nanny and the old housemaid. The rest of the family members are two much older brothers, his resigned mother and a retrograde father of authoritarian ideas. But many years have passed, and the civil war that won the despot Don Pablo is simply for their children "Dad's war".

La guerra de papá

1977

Kalebegiak poster
7.0

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

Kalebegiak

2016

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

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

El tesoro poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

El tesoro

1988

El tesoro poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

El tesoro

1988

Blood Stains in a New Car poster
5.8

Driving home in the brand new Volvo his wealthy wife gave him for his birthday, Ricardo comes upon a smoking, overturned auto with a man and boy trapped inside but, afraid he'd get bloodstains in his new car, he ignores their cries for help and drives away just before the wreck explodes. Soon after, blood begins pooling in his backseat and Ricardo comes to know how Lady Macbeth felt when he can't get the damned spots out no matter how many times he cleans the car...

Blood Stains in a New Car

1975

Blood Stains in a New Car poster
5.8

Driving home in the brand new Volvo his wealthy wife gave him for his birthday, Ricardo comes upon a smoking, overturned auto with a man and boy trapped inside but, afraid he'd get bloodstains in his new car, he ignores their cries for help and drives away just before the wreck explodes. Soon after, blood begins pooling in his backseat and Ricardo comes to know how Lady Macbeth felt when he can't get the damned spots out no matter how many times he cleans the car...

Blood Stains in a New Car

1975

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

Isabel Reina de Corazones poster
NR

Ricardo Lopez Aranda's play that follows Isabella II of Spain as she is forced to abdicate and leave the country in 1868.

Isabel Reina de Corazones

1984

The Little Birds poster
6.5

An elderly couple in Madrid each buy a pet bird. Weirdness abounds

The Little Birds

1974

The Little Birds poster
6.5

An elderly couple in Madrid each buy a pet bird. Weirdness abounds

The Little Birds

1974

Elegía por un circo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Elegía por un circo

1970

Elegía por un circo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Elegía por un circo

1970