Manuel Mur Oti

Manuel Mur Oti

Birth : 1908-10-25, Vigo, Spain

Death : 2003-08-05

History

Manuel Mur Oti was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. He also acted in one film, the neorealist Segundo López.

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Manuel Mur Oti

Movies

To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream
Writer
Given the proximity of death, the experiences of the past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives the crucial moments of his life, always linked to the names of women. Moments that remind him of having missed numerous opportunities to be happy.
To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream
Director
Given the proximity of death, the experiences of the past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives the crucial moments of his life, always linked to the names of women. Moments that remind him of having missed numerous opportunities to be happy.
A Diary of a Murderess
Author
A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, and after she gets rid of him, she goes after his son.
A Diary of a Murderess
Director
A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, and after she gets rid of him, she goes after his son.
El escuadrón del pánico
Director
The story of the 65th Infantry Regiment of the US Army composed almost entirely of Puerto Ricans and who participated in the Korean War, suffering heavy casualties.
Loca juventud
Director
Johnny Durán, who is seventeen years old and son of a multimillionaire, arrives to Madrid for hollidays. In the capital he become friend of a group of boys and girls with whom he shares great moments; but soon he realice that they are a clan of thugs and decides to distance themselves. He also meets Paula, daugther of an italian family that is travelling, and they both feel atracted by each other. Since then, started happening a serie of unexpected events which the guy will have to solve with tenacity and responsibility.
Miracle to Cowards
Screenplay
The Passion of the Christ from the point of view of Ana and Ruben, two christians who try to free him with the help of a group of followers who have been saved by the Messiah. The struggle to reach an agreement is the first hard step. Between conspirators the selfishness is strong than faith: they want to help Jesus because they fear they had their diseases back after his death.
Miracle to Cowards
Director
The Passion of the Christ from the point of view of Ana and Ruben, two christians who try to free him with the help of a group of followers who have been saved by the Messiah. The struggle to reach an agreement is the first hard step. Between conspirators the selfishness is strong than faith: they want to help Jesus because they fear they had their diseases back after his death.
Kill and Be Killed
Director
A former singer lives alone with her fortune - and with her nephew, Fernando, a low character to whom she refuses to lend more money. Elisa leaves prison and starts a new life as a personal attendant to the aging singer, using her knowledge as a former nurse - a profession she can not return to. Fernando meets Elisa, and together they plan to poison the lonely woman, and use her money abroad. They plan their alibis well. But those who kill by the sword will perish by the sword.
Duelo en la cañada
Screenplay
Andalusia, Spain, 1890. The feelings of the famous Creole singer Soledad Chacón are divided between an abusive ex-lover and a new love who is willing to marry her, ignoring the fact that she keeps a dark secret…
Duelo en la cañada
Director
Andalusia, Spain, 1890. The feelings of the famous Creole singer Soledad Chacón are divided between an abusive ex-lover and a new love who is willing to marry her, ignoring the fact that she keeps a dark secret…
Pescando millones
Writer
Pescando millones
Director
Una chica de Chicago
Writer
Una chica de Chicago
Director
La guerra empieza en Cuba
Director
Year 1898. When war broke out in Cuba, Juanita, a beautiful variety singer without much luck, decides to return to Spain when she discovers that her twin sister Adelaide has married the governor of Badajoz. Adelaide is capricious, vain and embarrassing, the opposite of Juanita. However, as the girls are physically identical, the singer intends to take full advantage of this situation.
The Shadow Battalion
Writer
Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...
The Shadow Battalion
Director
Dreams, hopes and passions of the inhabitants of a populous and humble tenement in Madrid. Among them, an inventor who invents always what is already invented, a composer, a hostess, a locksmith, a delivery of a pastry ...
Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Writer
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Director
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
Pride
Producer
A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love.
Pride
Screenplay
A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love.
Pride
Director
A tale of two families, the Mendozas and Alzagas, faced for generations by the water of a river separating their adjoining properties. Old grudges reappear when the two heirs fall in love.
Condemned
Writer
In the fields of La Mancha a woman works the land with the help of a young stranger. Her husband is in prison for a crime he committed in a jealous rage. All goes well until the man regained freedom and the ghosts of the past come back to him.
Condemned
Director
In the fields of La Mancha a woman works the land with the help of a young stranger. Her husband is in prison for a crime he committed in a jealous rage. All goes well until the man regained freedom and the ghosts of the past come back to him.
Segundo López, Urban Adventurer
Segundo López, a mature and humble man who hardly knows anything about life, sets out on a journey from his homeland, Cáceres, to Madrid, where he meets Chirri, a street urchin with whom he has countless adventures.
Black Sky
Screenplay
A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
Black Sky
Dialogue
A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
Black Sky
Director
A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
Un hombre va por el camino
Director
Luis, a tall and strong vagabond, rejects the work offered to him by an old gentleman, causing his outrage. In his erratic walk, Luis reaches the top of a mountain called Monte Oscuro, where Julia, widow of a writer, lives with his daughter Blanca. Despite his initial resistance, Luis ends up staying with Julia to help her work the land, sowing the gossip in the neighboring village. Everything is complicated when Blanca falls ill and Luis goes to town for the doctor, finding that is that old gentleman threatened by Luis long ago.
Alas de juventud
Writer
Noventa minutos
Screenstory
London, England, World War II. During a bombing, several people are trapped in the basement of a building where the air will run out in only ninety minutes…
Noventa minutos
Screenplay
London, England, World War II. During a bombing, several people are trapped in the basement of a building where the air will run out in only ninety minutes…
El huésped de las tinieblas
Story
El huésped de las tinieblas
Writer
Cuatro mujeres
Art Direction
Chance brings four men together at a coffee table during a poker game. The entrance of a woman brings back memories to all of them.
Cuatro mujeres
Writer
Chance brings four men together at a coffee table during a poker game. The entrance of a woman brings back memories to all of them.