
Directing
Antonio Román
Born — Died
1911-11-09 — 1989-06-16
Place of birth
Ourense, Ourense, Galicia, Spain
Known for
Directing
Credits
38 titles
Antonio Román (9 November 1911 – 16 June 1989) was a prolific Spanish film director, screenwriter, film producer. Antonio Román was born Ourense, Spain on 9 November 1911. Román began directing films in the later 1930s starting with documentaries. His first dramatic feature film was Esquadrilla. His other work includes an adaptation of Lola Montes and La Fierecilla domada, a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew. Many of these films star his wife, actress Yvonne Bastien. Román has won several international awards such as Golden Olive Tree from the Cine de Humor de Bordighera in Italy for Bombas para la paz and an award for Pacto de silencio from the Cork Festival in Ireland. Román died on …
Known for
6.4After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
Planet of the Vampires
1965
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Lola Montes
1944
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La forastera
1952
5.2A drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.
Gunman Called Nebraska
1966
6.7In a country house of Galicia (Spain), Teresa and Fernando, beset by their economic situation, rent rooms to Mr. Morell and his niece Lina, who are looking for a quiet place to rest. Everything seems normal but, at night, when the doors of the rooms are closed, it seems as if uncle and niece apparently practice spiritualism.
La casa de la lluvia
1943
No synopsis available yet.
Barcelona. Ritmo de un día
1940
Behind the camera
6.4After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
Planet of the Vampires
1965
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Lola Montes
1944
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La forastera
1952
5.2A drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.
Gunman Called Nebraska
1966
5.2A drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.
Gunman Called Nebraska
1966
6.7In a country house of Galicia (Spain), Teresa and Fernando, beset by their economic situation, rent rooms to Mr. Morell and his niece Lina, who are looking for a quiet place to rest. Everything seems normal but, at night, when the doors of the rooms are closed, it seems as if uncle and niece apparently practice spiritualism.
La casa de la lluvia
1943
6.7In a country house of Galicia (Spain), Teresa and Fernando, beset by their economic situation, rent rooms to Mr. Morell and his niece Lina, who are looking for a quiet place to rest. Everything seems normal but, at night, when the doors of the rooms are closed, it seems as if uncle and niece apparently practice spiritualism.
La casa de la lluvia
1943
No synopsis available yet.
Barcelona. Ritmo de un día
1940
6.6The Philippines, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Fifty Spanish soldiers guarding the outpost established in the small village of Baler endure the cruel siege of the Filipino rebels for eleven months, although the war is almost lost…
Los últimos de Filipinas
1945
6.6The Philippines, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Fifty Spanish soldiers guarding the outpost established in the small village of Baler endure the cruel siege of the Filipino rebels for eleven months, although the war is almost lost…
Los últimos de Filipinas
1945
5.0The troubled story of the Churruca family, a noble lineage of brave seamen, descendants of Cosme Damián Churruca, the Spanish hero of the Battle of Trafalgar; from the Spanish-American War (1898) to the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). (In 1950, a new cut of the film was released with less ideological depth and ten minutes shorter.)
Raza
1942
6.5Filigranas and Aceituno go out to fight a bull in a village of La Mancha. The hours before the run pass slow, the two thinking about their fear and illusions of victory. Also in Fina, the cutest girl instead, deceived by Juanito, the son of the doctor who is the official promised the Mayor's daughter.
Los clarines del miedo
1958
10.0After the end of World War II former SS Colonel Von Rittenau resides in a French castle with a group of New Nazis. Von Rittenau captures seven former Allied secret agents after he discovers their names in an old Gestapo archive and now wants his revenge on them.
Trap for Seven Spies
1966
10.0A paltry pension is the scenario in which love is forged between a mysterious woman and a frustrated writer. Based on the comedy "The poor things" by Alfonso Paso.
El sol en el espejo
1963
7.5Professor Don Carlos is a scientist who, after much research, discovers a chemical compound that, in the form of bomb, is capable of making people become peaceful beings. Just before his death, Don Carlos reveals to his friend and collaborator Alfredo the secret of his discovery
Bombs for Peace
1959
4.8No synopsis available yet.
Pacto de silencio
1963
4.8No synopsis available yet.
Pacto de silencio
1963
6.0A rich and famous painter dies leaving a secret that kept him apart from the woman he loved. Suspecting a family plot, she will try to unveil it keeping his death from the greedy relatives who are called in the middle of the night. She will try to find the truth before the dawn comes at last.
Madrugada
1957
6.0A rich and famous painter dies leaving a secret that kept him apart from the woman he loved. Suspecting a family plot, she will try to unveil it keeping his death from the greedy relatives who are called in the middle of the night. She will try to find the truth before the dawn comes at last.
Madrugada
1957
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La fierecilla domada
1956
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La fierecilla domada
1956
8.0Blanca, a young woman living in Odesa, is forced to kill a communist commissar to defend her honor. To escape persecution, she marries Carlos, captain of the Spanish steamship Campuzano, and leaves Russia. While Carlos returns to Madrid with his girlfriend Mary Lis, Blanca heads to Paris to annul her marriage. Some time later, in 1936, Carlos manages to impose his authority on the Campuzano's crew and ensure that the ship remains loyal to Franco's rebels. On one of his voyages, he encounters Blanca and tells her that Mary Lis is being held prisoner in a Cheka prison in Madrid.
Boda en el infierno
1942
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Dos novias para un torero
1956
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Dos novias para un torero
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Intriga
1942
NRNo synopsis available yet.
El pasado amenaza
1950
6.0A village bands together to kill its tyrannical Comendador, and when officials try to discover who is responsible, the villagers respond that the village committed the crime.
Fuenteovejuna
1947
7.5The young gypsy Peret and his friend Fidel are owners of an inn frequented by tourists. Peret orders the expansion of the business to a young decorator, who falls madly in love with him. Fifth feature by the Rumelo Peret, built for his brilliance, which here plays the owner of a tourist inn, a gypsy rumba singer whose songs will love both a young woman and her mother. A friendly comedy that has as its background the tourist boom of Spain in the late 1960
El mesón del gitano
1970
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Último día
1952
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Último día
1952
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Escuadrilla
1941
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Escuadrilla
1941
NRThe car represents more than a labor transport in rural Galicia. It was part of the work, the culture, the landscape and the leisure of the farmers. Thus, it shows the life cycle of a car from its construction to its "death", as well as other tasks of the daily life of the village such as threshing or linen making.
O carro e o home
1945
NRThe car represents more than a labor transport in rural Galicia. It was part of the work, the culture, the landscape and the leisure of the farmers. Thus, it shows the life cycle of a car from its construction to its "death", as well as other tasks of the daily life of the village such as threshing or linen making.
O carro e o home
1945
10.0An atmosphere of mystery surrounds the death of Juan Durán. Paula, his wife, who has traveled to Rio de Janeiro to meet her husband, receives the news of his death. Since then, she also feels the impression of being watched and persecuted.
Shot in the Back
1964
7.0Carmen is a Spanish emigrant in Stockholm who does not have the money to run her business or buy a ticket back to Spain. Thanks to a misunderstanding she meets Dr. Petersen who has an invitation to a medical congress in Seville and does not plan to attend. Carmen uses the ticket and impersonates the doctor just enough time to get to the city, but then she will be forced to keep the lie.
Congress in Seville
1955
10.0A woman returns home from a mental hospital, to find his husband has used her case to write a play.
La fuente enterrada
1950
8.0A woman is told his military husband is considered dead, the truth is he has been transferred to the secret service. When he returns to Spain and they get reunited he ends killing a German spy, and then she gets prosecuted.
Pacto de silencio
1949
