Alfonso Ungría

Directing

Alfonso Ungría

Born 1946-03-30 · Madrid, Spain

Alfonso Ungría (born March 30, 1946, in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish film and television director and screenwriter. After beginning his career in independent cinema in the late 1960s, he directed numerous films and television productions, including El hombre oculto (1970), Gulliver (1976), Soldados (1978), La conquista de Albania (1983), África (1996), and El deseo de ser un piel roja (2002). He also directed several productions for Televisión Española (TVE), including the television film Lazos (1994).

Acting credits

Behind the camera

África poster
6.3

Martín (Zoe Berriatúa) is a teenager living in the San Blas district of Madrid. He is upset with his father Arturo (Imanol Arias) because he blames him for his mother's death. With the help of his girlfriend África (Elena Anaya), who will become his stepsister, he tries to get revenge on him.

África

1996

África poster
6.3

Martín (Zoe Berriatúa) is a teenager living in the San Blas district of Madrid. He is upset with his father Arturo (Imanol Arias) because he blames him for his mother's death. With the help of his girlfriend África (Elena Anaya), who will become his stepsister, he tries to get revenge on him.

África

1996

Querido Abraham poster
NR

A girl falls in love with Abraham Lincoln.

Querido Abraham

1968

Querido Abraham poster
NR

A girl falls in love with Abraham Lincoln.

Querido Abraham

1968

With Good Reason poster
4.7

A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.

With Good Reason

2004

Lazos poster
NR

Luz, the daughter of an ambassador living in Madrid, discovers that she is HIV-positive. At the same time, she meets Luis, an advertising executive leading an AIDS awareness campaign. As their relationship develops, both are forced to confront the realities of living with the disease.

Lazos

1994

Lazos poster
NR

Luz, the daughter of an ambassador living in Madrid, discovers that she is HIV-positive. At the same time, she meets Luis, an advertising executive leading an AIDS awareness campaign. As their relationship develops, both are forced to confront the realities of living with the disease.

Lazos

1994

Soldados poster
6.5

Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.

Soldados

1978

Soldados poster
6.5

Dramatic portrait of men and women discouraged in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, after the odyssey of a group of Republican soldiers trying to reach the east coast to go into exile. Agustín must bear that his libertine father lives with the ironer Remedios, although she does not love him. She escapes and he goes to war; when they finally meet again, anxious amid bursts, it will be impossible to consummate their desires repressed for so long.

Soldados

1978

Erotic Stories poster
4.1

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.

Erotic Stories

1980

Erotic Stories poster
4.1

A set of nine stories whose central theme is eroticism. The different directors of the film deal from philosophical aspects to others that are almost pornographic, but always with a common denominator: sensuality.

Erotic Stories

1980

Gulliver poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Gulliver

1979

Gulliver poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

Gulliver

1979

El deseo de ser piel roja poster
6.7

Martín wanders through Tangier, unsure of what to do with his life. There he meets another eccentric man twice his age: Abel, a cheerful, adventurous bon vivant. And, on a wild night, they decide to blow up a nuclear power plant: doing so will be the only light in their bleak future. But only when Ana, Abel's young lover, joins them on their journey (along the coast and into the interior of the country) is their destiny confirmed. She will be the catalyst for their love, their conflicts, their ideals, and their inevitable, enormous final explosion.

El deseo de ser piel roja

2002

El deseo de ser piel roja poster
6.7

Martín wanders through Tangier, unsure of what to do with his life. There he meets another eccentric man twice his age: Abel, a cheerful, adventurous bon vivant. And, on a wild night, they decide to blow up a nuclear power plant: doing so will be the only light in their bleak future. But only when Ana, Abel's young lover, joins them on their journey (along the coast and into the interior of the country) is their destiny confirmed. She will be the catalyst for their love, their conflicts, their ideals, and their inevitable, enormous final explosion.

El deseo de ser piel roja

2002

La conquista de Albania poster
5.2

King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into Albania and conquer that land for the Spaniards. Since Albania was a part of the dowry of Luis' wife, it seemed like a reasonable idea at the time. While that expedition and its final battle is the subject of this historical film, the scale involved can hardly do justice to the concept. The protagonists talk incessantly, and by the time they get down to the final grand battle, it turns out to be a skirmish between several dozen men.

La conquista de Albania

1983

Ehun metro poster
7.0

It's 8 AM in a summer morning from the 70's. Jon, an ETA member, is being chased by the police in the Old Town of San Sebastian. While he runs, he revises his whole life.

Ehun metro

1985

Ehun metro poster
7.0

It's 8 AM in a summer morning from the 70's. Jon, an ETA member, is being chased by the police in the Old Town of San Sebastian. While he runs, he revises his whole life.

Ehun metro

1985

Tirarse al monte poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tirarse al monte

1971

Tirarse al monte poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tirarse al monte

1971

Man in Hiding poster
5.2

Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.

Man in Hiding

1971

Man in Hiding poster
5.2

Following the Spanish Civil War, a man goes into hiding to avoid arrest by the victorious Nationalist forces.

Man in Hiding

1971

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vida en los teleclubs

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vida en los teleclubs