Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Writing

Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Born — Died

1901-10-15 — 1952-02-18

Place of birth

Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Known for

Writing

Credits

18 titles

Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was a well-known Spanish playwright.

Known for

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A parody of the current affairs news format built upon autonomous pieces.

Fake News

1933

Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier poster
4.7

Madrid, Spain, 1880. Angelina, daughter of the pompous Brigadier Marcial, is tempted by the womanizer Germán, who asks her to run away together, just after her boyfriend, Rodolfo, asks her to do exactly the same thing with him.

Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier

1935

Melodía prohibida poster
NR

Kalu and Tuila are two South Pacific islanders who are getting married. Invited to their wedding are several tourists who have recently arrived aboard a yacht. During the wedding Kalu sings a "Forbidden Melody", which is a song that a young man sings only once in his life, on the day of his wedding. However, he is enticed by Peggy, a nightclub performer who arrived on the yacht, into an illicit affair, eventually leaving with the tourists when their yacht departs. One of the other tourists is a nightclub owner, who offers Kalu a job back in the states.

Melodía prohibida

1933

Los ladrones somos gente honrada poster
8.0

Based on a play

Los ladrones somos gente honrada

1942

Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro poster
5.0

Blanca and Ramiro are a married couple who are always arguing just for pleasure; but Blanca suddenly suffers a misfortune and everything changes.

Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro

1971

Insure Your Wife poster
7.0

This Fox Film comedy – based on a play by Argentinean writer Julio Escobar – features an international cast that includes actor and singer Raúl Roulien and his fiancée in both the movie and real life, actress and dancer Conchita Montenegro. The plot centers on Ricardo Randall (Roulien), who concocts a scheme to establish an insurance policy to protect men from their wives’ infidelity. The plot thickens when Ricardo’s secretary and love interest, Camelia Cornell (Montenegro), is faced with the return of Rita Martín (Maris), a former lover of Ricardo, whose husband Eduardo (Moreno) has purchased an insurance policy on her. The film features tango songs performed by Roulien, with lyrics by Spanish playwright Enrique Jardiel Poncela, who also collaborated on the film’s screenplay.

Insure Your Wife

1935

Film credits

Behind the camera

Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier poster
4.7

Madrid, Spain, 1880. Angelina, daughter of the pompous Brigadier Marcial, is tempted by the womanizer Germán, who asks her to run away together, just after her boyfriend, Rodolfo, asks her to do exactly the same thing with him.

Angelina, o El honor de un brigadier

1935

Melodía prohibida poster
NR

Kalu and Tuila are two South Pacific islanders who are getting married. Invited to their wedding are several tourists who have recently arrived aboard a yacht. During the wedding Kalu sings a "Forbidden Melody", which is a song that a young man sings only once in his life, on the day of his wedding. However, he is enticed by Peggy, a nightclub performer who arrived on the yacht, into an illicit affair, eventually leaving with the tourists when their yacht departs. One of the other tourists is a nightclub owner, who offers Kalu a job back in the states.

Melodía prohibida

1933

Los ladrones somos gente honrada poster
8.0

Based on a play

Los ladrones somos gente honrada

1942

Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro poster
5.0

Blanca and Ramiro are a married couple who are always arguing just for pleasure; but Blanca suddenly suffers a misfortune and everything changes.

Blanca por fuera y Rosa por dentro

1971

Insure Your Wife poster
7.0

This Fox Film comedy – based on a play by Argentinean writer Julio Escobar – features an international cast that includes actor and singer Raúl Roulien and his fiancée in both the movie and real life, actress and dancer Conchita Montenegro. The plot centers on Ricardo Randall (Roulien), who concocts a scheme to establish an insurance policy to protect men from their wives’ infidelity. The plot thickens when Ricardo’s secretary and love interest, Camelia Cornell (Montenegro), is faced with the return of Rita Martín (Maris), a former lover of Ricardo, whose husband Eduardo (Moreno) has purchased an insurance policy on her. The film features tango songs performed by Roulien, with lyrics by Spanish playwright Enrique Jardiel Poncela, who also collaborated on the film’s screenplay.

Insure Your Wife

1935

Satan's Five Warnings poster
10.0

Two couples live through attraction, distraction, sympathy, friendship, quarrel, jealousy, fidelity, and the Devil supervises it all by delivering solemn warnings in choice moments.

Satan's Five Warnings

1970

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mauricio, o una víctima del vicio

1940

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mauricio, o una víctima del vicio

1940

Un anuncio y cinco cartas poster
5.3

An honest man puts an ad looking for a room to rent in an honest house and receives five peculiar answers.

Un anuncio y cinco cartas

1937

Un anuncio y cinco cartas poster
5.3

An honest man puts an ad looking for a room to rent in an honest house and receives five peculiar answers.

Un anuncio y cinco cartas

1937

El fakir Rodríguez poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El fakir Rodríguez

1938

El fakir Rodríguez poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

El fakir Rodríguez

1938