Antonio Mercero
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Antonio Mercero is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
) is a Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
director of the series Verano azul
Verano azul
Verano azul was a famous Spanish television show directed by Antonio Mercero that first aired in 1981. It tells of the adventures of a group of youngsters between ages 9 and 17, while on summer vacation in Nerja, a small town on the Mediterranean Costa del Sol, Andalusia, in Southern Spain...
and later Farmacia de guardia. He is best known as the director of a 1972 surrealist short horror film titled La cabina
La cabina
La cabina is an Emmy award-winning, 1972 film directed by Spanish director Antonio Mercero, and written by him and José Luis Garci...
, that won an Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
. In 2010 he was awarded a Honorary Goya Award
Goya Awards
The Goya Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Goya, are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards....
(Goya de Honor).
Cinema Filmography
- Trotin Troteras (1962)
- Leccion de arte (1962)
- Tajamar (1970)
- La cabinaLa cabinaLa cabina is an Emmy award-winning, 1972 film directed by Spanish director Antonio Mercero, and written by him and José Luis Garci...
(1972) - Manchas de sangre en un coche nuevo (1975)
- La Guerra de papa (1977)
- Tobi (1978 film)Tobi (1978 film)Tobi is 1978 film about a little boy who with no explanation develops a pair of wings on his back giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community, including doctors, scientist and even his schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but they eventually grow back...
- Don Juan, mi querido fantasma (1990)
- La hora de los valientesLa hora de los valientesLa hora de los valientes is a 1998 Spanish war drama film directed by Antonio Mercero about the Spanish Civil War. Adriana Ozores won a Goya Award as Best Supporting Actress.-Plot summary:...
(1998) - Planta 4ªPlanta 4ªPlanta 4ª is a 2003 Spanish film directed by Antonio Mercero and starring Juan José Ballesta, Gorka Moreno, Luis Ángel Priego, Alejandro Zafra and Monti Castiñeiras. It was nominated for Best Picture in the 2004 Goya Awards.A group of seriously ill boys live on the fourth floor of a hospital...
(2003) - ¿Y tú quién eres? (2007)