
Writing
Alejandro Casona
Born — Died
1903-03-03 — 1965-09-17
Place of birth
Besullo, Allande, Principality of Asturias, Kingdom of Spain [now Spain]
Known for
Writing
Credits
26 titles
Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona (23 March 1903 – 17 September 1965) was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina until April 1962, when he definitively returned to Spain. A teacher by profession, Casona expressed a strong educational vocation, inspired by the ideals of the Free Institution of Education, and his defense of progressive values in diverse cultural outreach projects such as Pedagogical Miss…
Known for
6.5A fantastical fable based on a play by Alejandro Casona.
Seven Screams Across the Sea
1986
7.2A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Never Open That Door
1952
6.6While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.
If I Should Die Before I Wake
1952
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Las tres perfectas casadas
1973
7.0A young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.
The Third Word
1956
5.8A mature couple happily receives the news of pregnancy while a young couple has the disappointment of a frustrated attempt.
La cigüeña dijo sí
1955
Behind the camera
6.5A fantastical fable based on a play by Alejandro Casona.
Seven Screams Across the Sea
1986
7.2A man tries to avenge the death of his sister, a gambling addict. Another man, an ex-convict who whistles when he commits a crime, is reunited with his blind mother.
Never Open That Door
1952
6.6While playing a prank, a young boy accidentally discovers the identity of a criminal lurking in the neighborhood.
If I Should Die Before I Wake
1952
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Las tres perfectas casadas
1973
7.0A young teacher is sent to a remote estate to educate a wealthy man who has grown up isolated from society. As she introduces him to formal education and social conventions, their contrasting views of the world lead to a series of unexpected encounters.
The Third Word
1956
5.8A mature couple happily receives the news of pregnancy while a young couple has the disappointment of a frustrated attempt.
La cigüeña dijo sí
1955
7.8An angel who comes down to earth in the form of a woman lives a love story.
Naughty Angel
1953
No synopsis available yet.
Los árboles mueren de pie
1966
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La dama del alba
1965
7.7No synopsis available yet.
El que recibe las bofetadas
1947
7.0A woman finds the opportunity to change her life when she meets and falls for a man who lives in a cabin far from the city.
Romance en tres noches
1950
5.8The romance between an actress and a young man provokes the rejection of the class to which he belongs.
En el viejo Buenos Aires
1942
8.0A young woman returns from boarding school and will repeat in a certain way her mother's secret story, but she will be happy.
Veinte años y una noche
1941
6.5A medical student helps an amnesic patient to remember his life but they end up falling in love, and she'll must sacrifice her love.
Concierto de almas
1942
7.0Margarita, the nun of a cloistered convent in charge of handling the lathe, this is a rotating mechanism provided with a small window through which she delivered and received things from the outside without direct visual contact, she is seduced by a Don Juan and induced to escape with him .
Milagro de amor
1946
9.5A woman fond of spiritualism and neglected by her husband starts an affair with an American industrialist.
El extraño caso de la mujer asesinada
1949
7.5It is three years since Martín's wife, Angélica, mysteriously disappeared in the waters of the river. Despite the bad weather and ignoring the advice of Angélica's mother, Martín leaves the house. At that moment a strange pilgrim arrives in search of shelter. She can only stop for a few minutes because she has to go to the bridge to meet Adela, a girl with an appointment with Death.
The Lady of the Dawn
1966
8.5Seven passengers aboard a ship that is about to hit an enemy warship will confess their most terrible secrets.
Siete gritos en el mar
1954
10.0A new teacher arrives at a girls' boarding school; his arrival disrupts the discipline of the beautiful students.
Cuando florezca el naranjo
1943
7.8The relationship of the young night school teacher with her students.
La maestrita de los obreros
1942
8.0In exchange for the life of a Norwegian fisherman, a bankrupt industrialist gives his soul to the devil.
La barca sin pescador
1950
The story of different episodes that happen in each of the sections of a newspaper.
Ceniza al viento
1942
6.8The story of Julia, a beautiful woman of licentious life who one day reconsiders and decides to use her fortune for the good of her neighbor and of the needy.
The Prodigal Woman
1945
8.0A poor bookstore decides to appear to the widow of a professor's friend as their lost grandson when she learns she is about to die.
Slum, my love
1969
10.0After a storm, the captain of a ship lets it float aimlessly until he reaches an island paradise.
María Celeste
1945
7.0A girl who grew up in a boarding school where she suffered from a lack of love is set as its director once she graduates as a lawyer.
Nuestra Natacha
1944
