Alfonso Paso

Writing

Alfonso Paso

Born September 12, 1926 · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Died July 10, 1978 · aged 51

Alfonso Paso (12 September 1926 – 10 July 1978) was a Spanish dramatist. He wrote over a hundred plays, mainly light comedies, sometimes laced with black humour and tragedy. There were also police dramas and examples of what he called "social theatre". He was known for the well crafted complexity of his plots and for the originality of his situations and characters. Alfonso Paso Gil was born into…

Known For

Amor a la españolaAmor a la española · 1967
Amor a la española
★ 4.01967
MovieComedy
The adventures of a group of Spaniards to win the favors of the numerous young foreigners who spend the summer in the city.
Este curaEste cura · 1968
Este cura
★ 7.01968
MovieComedy
A village priest protects a young mother rejected by the people and the mayor.
¡Cómo está el servicio!¡Cómo está el servicio! · 1968
¡Cómo está el servicio!
★ 5.61968
MovieComedy
Vicenta Verruguillo came to Madrid to work as a bridesmaid in the house of a doctor and falls in love with his son. The boy, to keep his family is left without service, follow the advice of his father and pretends to be in love with her. Meanwhile, his cousin Manolo, a likeable rogue, who works as a nurse, several maids dupes that get her salary every month because he has promised to buy a flat before marrying them.
Cursed MountainsCursed Mountains · 1955
Cursed Mountains
★ 6.41955
MovieDrama
A small Spanish town is divided between the upper and lower parts. In the wealthy upper part, all the women are barren. Juan from the poor lower part falls in love with Luz, a pretty girl from the upper side: a girl who must of course be barren.
No somos ni Romeo ni JulietaNo somos ni Romeo ni Julieta · 1969
No somos ni Romeo ni Julieta
★ 5.51969
MovieComedy
Blocked pathsBlocked paths · 1955
Blocked paths
★ 6.51955
MovieActionCrime
After committing a crime, four fugitives intend to cross the border just to find the roads are blocked.
Los extremeños se tocanLos extremeños se tocan · 1970
Los extremeños se tocan
★ 5.81970
MovieComedy
Vamos por la parejitaVamos por la parejita · 1969
Vamos por la parejita
★ 4.81969
MovieComedy
Antonio Garisa is Juan Fernández Arriaga, a typicall spanish man fifty years ago. He's married and has five girls, but he is unhappy because all he wanted was a boy (in spanish argot, "ir por la parejita" means trying to have a couple of children, girl and boy). He only has women and they have only girls. During the film he prays, he tries to have a boy to give him his surname "Fernández". Garisa is one of the best actors of Spanish Comedy, maybe too understimate because the kind of cinema made in Spain during Franco's government.

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