biography
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Escrivá, Vicente
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in full Vicente Escrivá Soriano
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pronunciation:
[eskreeva]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1913– )
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| biography:
| Producer and director, born in Valencia, E Spain. He studied at university and began a career as a journalist writing for the press and radio, becoming head of programmes for Latin America on Radio Nacional de España. He published several novels and biographies and was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1947. His success as a co-scriptwriter on La mies es mucha (1948, director José Luis Saenz de Heredia), enabled him to form his own company, Aspa Films, for which he wrote and produced some of the most significant politico-religious films of the early 1950s, such as Balarrasa (1950, director José Antonio Nieves Conde), Sor Intrépida (1952), La guerra de Dios (1953), El beso de Judas (1953), and Un traje blanco (1956), directed by Rafael Gil. At the end of the 1950s and after the failure of two films, he directed three others for the singer Raphael. With the return of democratic rule to Spain and the abolition of censorship, he turned to erotic themes with La lozana andaluza (1976), Niñas... ¡al salón! (1977), El Virgo de Visenteta (1978), and Visenteta esta-te quieta (1979). The TV series Lleno, por favor (1993) which he writes, produces, and directs, has been a great success. |
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