Gil Parrondo

Nascimento : 1921-06-17, Luarca, Asturias, Spain

Morte : 2016-12-24

Filmes

A Pele Fria
In Memory Of
Em 1914, logo após o assassinato de Franz Ferdinand que eventualmente causou a Primeira Guerra Mundial, um navio a vapor se aproxima de uma ilha desolada à beira do Círculo Antártico. Um jovem está preparado para assumir o cargo de observador do clima, para viver na solidão nos confins da Terra por um ano inteiro, até a chegada do seu substituto. Nos próximos doze meses, seu mundo consistirá em uma cabana deserta, no mar circundante e em seres perigosos e estranhos que ele descobre e que compartilham a ilha.
A Pele Fria
Production Design
Em 1914, logo após o assassinato de Franz Ferdinand que eventualmente causou a Primeira Guerra Mundial, um navio a vapor se aproxima de uma ilha desolada à beira do Círculo Antártico. Um jovem está preparado para assumir o cargo de observador do clima, para viver na solidão nos confins da Terra por um ano inteiro, até a chegada do seu substituto. Nos próximos doze meses, seu mundo consistirá em uma cabana deserta, no mar circundante e em seres perigosos e estranhos que ele descobre e que compartilham a ilha.
Bienvenido Mr. Heston
Himself - Art Director
Spain, 1961. Life in the small village of Torrelobatón, in the province of Valladolid, was turned upside down when the cinematic magic circus of a future Hollywood blockbuster, produced by Samuel Bronston, the rogue mogul of his own film empire, came to town: its inhabitants became participants and witnesses of the shooting of “El Cid,” a film directed by Anthony Mann, starring mythical actors Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. Those days, legends came alive.
Inverosímil Jardiel Poncela
Self
The Spanish author Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was one of the best comedy writers of all time, a novelist and newspaper columnist, misunderstood, even censored, both by the Second Republic government and Francoism, an outsider ahead of his time; also a filmmaker and screenwriter in Hollywood, architect of a revolutionary theatrical building and scenographer, cartoonist and illustrator. An implausible genius.
Blood of May
Set Decoration
Revolution in Spain, around the events of 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.
Sunday Light
Set Decoration
The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions.
Tiovivo c. 1950
Set Decoration
This movie has any coherent plot. It is more the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how people manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: la colmena or roma (fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
A Ponte de San Luis Rey
Production Design
Em 20 de julho de 1714, no Peru, a corda de sustentação de uma ponte se parte, causando a morte de 5 pessoas na queda. O frei Juniper (Gabriel Byrne) escreve um livro sobre o caso, narrando a vida de cada uma das pessoas que morreram de forma a provar que Deus as uniu por uma razão, e não por acaso. O livro gera polêmica, fazendo com que o frei seja acusado pela Igreja Católica de cometer heresia.
Historia de un beso
Production Design
Dama de Porto Pim
Production Design
"Dama de Porto Pim" tells the story of a rich woman who arrives at a little Portuguese island while her husband is in the II World War; there, a humble fisherman, promised to marry a girl of the town, falls in love with her, and she will also fall in love with him, but his husband could come back.
The Grandfather
Set Decoration
After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true, and which one is bastard.
La herida luminosa
Set Decoration
Dr. Molinos, a prestigious cardiologist, and his wife Isabel are going through a serious marital crisis. They live in Oviedo, in the oppressive Spain of the 50s, in the company of two maids: Escolástica and Jovita. His only daughter, Maribel, entered a convent of nuns. The unexpected love felt by Dr. Molinos for Julia, a young doctor who is much younger than him, makes him feel alive again.
La herida luminosa
Production Design
Dr. Molinos, a prestigious cardiologist, and his wife Isabel are going through a serious marital crisis. They live in Oviedo, in the oppressive Spain of the 50s, in the company of two maids: Escolástica and Jovita. His only daughter, Maribel, entered a convent of nuns. The unexpected love felt by Dr. Molinos for Julia, a young doctor who is much younger than him, makes him feel alive again.
O Desaparecimento de Garcia Lorca
Production Design
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
O Desaparecimento de Garcia Lorca
Art Direction
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
Cradle Song
Set Decoration
A group of nuns find an abandoned baby girl at the doorstep of their convent.
Cristóvão Colombo: A Aventura do Descobrimento
Production Design
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by traveling west instead of east, across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese, he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada, he eventually gets the blessing from Queen Isabella and sets sail in three ships to travel into the unknown. Along the way he must deal with sabotage from Portugese spies and mutiny from a rebellious crew.
El largo invierno
Set Decoration
In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
A Volta dos Mosqueteiros
Production Design
É 1649: Mazarin contrata o empobrecido D'Artagnan para encontrar os outros mosqueteiros: Cromwell subverteu o rei inglês, e Mazarin teme a revolta, particularmente do popular Beaufort. Porthos, entediado com riquezas e querendo um título, assina, mas Aramis, um abade, e Athos, um brawler criando um filho intelectual, ajudam Beaufort em segredo. Quando eles não conseguem impedir a fuga de Beaufort da prisão, os mosqueteiros são dispensáveis, e Mazarin os envia para Londres para resgatar Charles I. Eles também são perseguidos por Justine, a filha vingadora de Milady de Winter, sua inimiga há 20 anos. Eles devem escapar da Inglaterra, evitar Justine, servir a rainha e garantir as reformas políticas de Beauford.
Iguana
Art Direction
A grotesquely disfigured harpooner called Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in the 19th century. One night he escapes and takes up residence on a remote island. He makes himself ruler of the island and declares war on mankind. Anyone unfortunate enough to wind up on the island with Iguana is subjected to his cruel tyranny.
A Grande Cruzada
Production Design
A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's sworn duty to protect the children and lead them to safety.
O Vaqueiro Cantador
Production Design
A singing cowboy roams the Wild West with his sidekick, dancing horse and fancy wardrobe.
Bearn
Set Decoration
Mallorca, 1865. Mr Bearns' funerals, "better to dye thant to mix blood". Juan Mayol, orphan unknow his past and decides to rebuild his family history
Paper Heart
Production Design
Ups and downs of a news agency led by Antonio Borja, a veteran journalist formed during the Franco regime, with the help of his godson and protegé Tomás. The threat of economic bankruptcy, the appearance of Julia, a young journalist from last university generations, the background of the world of tabloids (tricks used by celebrities to remain so, reports sold exclusively by interested parties, photos of Stolen nudes that have been previously agreed) and what is behind the covers of magazines that weekly buy people eager for gossip form the rest of the plot.
Começar de Novo
Production Design
Albajara é um senhor já de idade, um intelectual ganhador do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura e que leciona na Universidade Berkeley, na Califórnia. Espanhol de nascimento, Albajara faz parte da geração que lutou na guerra civil espanhola e acabou se exilando na América. Isso foi nos anos 30 e, desde então, ele nunca mais voltou para sua cidade natal, Gijon. O que irá acontecer agora, depois de tanto tempo, quando lembranças daqueles dias serão rememoradas?
Las aventuras de Enrique y Ana
Set Decoration
Enrique is a gym teacher who along with his sister want to start a musical career with the support of their grandfather, a great scientist who wants to stop an evil despot from getting an artifact that would endanger the entire world.
Sphinx
Art Direction
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!
Cuba
Production Design
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Os Meninos do Brasil
Production Design
O ensandecido médico Joseph Mengele (Gregory Peck), que fez milhares de experiências genéticas com judeus (inclusive crianças), vive no Paraguai e planeja o nascimento do 4º Reich. Para obter tal objetivo, faz 94 clones de Hitler quando ele era um garoto. Mas isto não basta, pois diversas variáveis necessitam serem criadas para traçar o perfil psicológico de Hitler. Entretanto Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), um judeu que é um caçador de nazistas, descobre a trama e tenta impedir que tal plano se concretize.
Marche ou Morra
Production Design
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
La menor
Set Decoration
La espada negra
Art Direction
Kingdom of Castile, 15th century. A group of nobles, who question the dynastic legitimacy of Princess Juana, daughter of King Enrique IV, conspire with the purpose of overthrowing him.
Cuando los maridos iban a la guerra
Set Decoration
Cuando los maridos iban a la guerra
Art Direction
Robin e Marian
Art Direction
Uma espécie de tragicomédia de aventura, o filme "Robin e Marian" mostra a lenda de Robin Hood porém cerca de vinte anos após a maioria das versões da história, com Robin e seu ajudante Little John retornando ao seu antigo esconderijo na floresta de Sherwood cansado do mundo das Cruzadas e sua brutalidade revoltante. Eles são informados por seus ex-companheiros Frei Tuck e Will Scarlett que Maid Marian agora vive no convento nas proximidades, onde ela se tornou uma abadessa. Marian saúda o retorno de Robin com sentimentos mistos, mas depois que ele a resgata de seu inimigo de longa data, o xerife de Nottingham, que tenta prendê-la por motivos religiosos, os dois se tornam amantes mais uma vez.
The Adolescents
Set Decoration
A shy girl named Ana is sent to an English boarding school. After a period of adjustment, she travels to London with two of her more world weary classmates and becomes the target for a trio of men who take illicit photographs of young girls to be published in 'Estimulation' Magazine.
O Vento e o Leão
Production Design
Tanger, Marrocos, outubro de 1904. Uma bela e refinada americana, Eden Pedecaris (Candice Bergen), é sequestrada juntamente com seu casal de filhos por Mulay Achmed Mohammed el-Raisuli, o Magnífico (Sean Connery), um líder Berbere que fez isto com o objetivo de constranger o sultão do Marrocos (Marc Zuber), que está fazendo várias concessões para os estrangeiros. Sabendo disto Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Keith), o presidente dos Estados Unidos, declarou que se necessário faria uma intervenção armada no Marrocos, para proteger os americanos (na verdade era mais um discurso político, visando as próximas eleições, que qualquer outra coisa). Eden fica apavorada com os costumes que Raisuli segue e teme por sua vida e de seus filhos, mas aos poucos surge entre ela e Raisuli uma demonstração mútua de respeito e admiração.
Open Season
Art Direction
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.
Open Season
Production Design
Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However the father of one of their earlier victims is plotting a vicious revenge against them.
The Girl from the Red Cabaret
Set Decoration
Harvey hires Mary to seduce his rival Larry and help him gain his revenge. But Maria and Larry fall in love and things become complicated.
Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo
Art Direction
Dom Quixote é obcecado pela cavalaria e seus códigos de honra. Juntamente com seu escudeiro singular Sancho Panza, Dom Quixote lembra as aventuras que eles compartilharam.
Travels with My Aunt
Art Direction
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Nicholas e Alexandra
Art Direction
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Nicholas e Alexandra
Production Design
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Cauldron of Blood
Art Direction
A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
Patton, Rebelde ou Herói?
Art Direction
Norte da África, 1943. Patton (George C. Scott) assume o comando e injeta disciplina nos seus subordinados. Na Segunda Guerra, preocupado com a batalha contra o Marechal Rommel (Karl Michael Vogler), Patton procura entendê-lo lendo o livro do próprio Rommel. Promovido, é enviado para a Itália, mas coloca o futuro de sua carreira em risco ao esbofetear um recruta que estava tendo um colapso nervoso. Este incidente o faz perder o comando do seu exército e, por extensão, ser excluído da invasão do "Dia D", além de ser forçado a pedir desculpas públicas pelo ocorrido.
A Batalha da Grã-Bretanha
Art Direction
A mais extraordinária batalha aérea da história, transformada num clássico filme de guerra. Em 1940, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a RAF - Real Força Aérea britânica entra numa luta desesperada contra a Luftwaffe para impedir uma possível invasão das forças alemãs ao território inglês. Os soldados se engajam numa luta aérea pelo controle dos céus, e o que está em jogo é a sobrevivência da Inglaterra.
Hamelín
Art Direction
O Vale Proibido
Art Direction
Numa área remota na fronteira entre o Texas e o México, um grupo de cowboys acham um caminho para um vale onde seres pré-históricos habitam. Enquanto tentam retornar eles trazem junto um exemplar de dinossauro para apresentar em um show de variedades.
Four Rode Out
Art Direction
In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal.
Dr. Coppelius
Set Costumer
Film based on the ballet 'Coppelia.' This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/narration, or animation of the later reworking, Mysterious House of Dr. C.
Dr. Coppelius
Art Direction
Film based on the ballet 'Coppelia.' This version is completely silent, not containing the songs/narration, or animation of the later reworking, Mysterious House of Dr. C.
Sound of Horror
Art Direction
When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons
Sound of Horror
Production Design
When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons
Doutor Jivago
Art Direction
Ambientado antes e durante a Revolução Bolchevique na Rússia, conheça a história do doutor Yury Zhivago, que em plena guerra se viu apaixonado pela bela Lara Antipova, o amor impossível que move toda a história. Baseado na obra de Boris Pasternak, vencedor de 5 Oscar, incluindo Fotografia e Roteiro Adaptado.
Quando Floresce o Amor
Art Direction
Tommy Tyler, a lazy Caribbean sailor, and his tom-boy daughter, Spring, are out to search for a buried treasure. Tommy brings aboard William Ashton, a young lawyer, to help with the search. Ashton turns out to be handy when they encounter dangerous rivals. Tommy also tries to play match maker between Ashton and Spring – a difficult task indeed.
Ensayo general para la muerte
Set Decoration
A playwright boasts he can commit a perfect crime in front of his friends, a police chief, a physician and a theater owner. Later, when the playwright's wife disappears, foul play is suspected. Did he murder her?
Sabían demasiado
Set Decoration
A gang of Spanish pickpockets decide to send one of them to Chicago to learn how to be a gangster...
Learning to Die
Set Decoration
Despite the advice that friends have given, Manuel wanders tentaderos and squares to see if they let him fight. After many calamities and thanks to Rafael, get a bullfight in Cordoba. From here, it rains contracts and get a series of victories, winning his first money.
Mi noche de bodas
Art Direction
Afther their wedding ceremony, Fernanda and Cosme Martínez go to a luxury hotel to consummate. They receive there some gifts and they find one fabulous diamant bracalet with a note for Fernanda thanking her for unfforgetable nights. Cosme feel jelause and Fernanda offended and during their wedding night they go from one place to another to find out the misunderstanding.
Don José, Pepe y Pepito
Set Decoration
The arrival of Francis, who owns a factory of surgical material in New York, caused a real stir in a family composed by her grandfather, Pepe, the son, Jose, and grandson, Pepito. Pepito falls in love with her even though Francis consider him a child. But Don Jose is also in love with the American. This situation creates a difficult situation between parent and child, that Francis seeks to remedy returning to the United States. But the grandfather, Pepe, has the solution ...
Un paso al frente
Set Decoration
Rafael, Miguel and Gabriel are three boys of different social status, who come to the call of the Flags of Hunters Parachute enroll in their ranks. Between them comes a great friendship and starring a host of incidents, until Rafael starts a relationship with Milagros, an attractive girl of Alcala.
Vida sin risas
Set Decoration
Simbad e a Princesa
Art Direction
Quando o lendário Simbad sai numa perigosa jornada para a misteriosa Ilha de Colossus, ele se envolve em uma incrível e movimentada aventura. Ele precisa quebrar o encanto que um diabólico feiticeiro jogou em sua amada princesa. Mas antes que possa salva-la, Simbad vai enfrentar uma incrível coleção de monstros místicos: O ciclope devorador de homens, um exército de esqueletos, um feroz pássaro de duas cabeças chamado Roc e um dragão que expele fogo.
La noche y el alba
Set Decoration
Pedro, a street photographer who fought during the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, becomes obsessed with a young model.
El hombre del paraguas blanco
Set Decoration
... Y eligió el Infierno
Set Decoration
In a Eastern Germany harbor town, two siblings, Elsa (Sabine Bethmann) and Richard (Conrado San Martín) Wolff, help people to cladestinately cross the borders and escape from the communist regime to Western Germany, .
Ambush in Tangier
Production Design
An American police detective's investigation into a series of murders leads him to drug smugglers in North Africa.
Fedra, the Devil's Daughter
Set Decoration
Estrella, a wild young woman, is lusted after by every man and therefore hated by the female community.
Red Fish
Set Decoration
Ivón, a chorus girl, and Hugo, a failed writer, arrive at a seaside hotel on a stormy night, along with Carlos, Hugo's 19-year-old son. When they decide to lean over the cliffs of the coast to observe the wild dance of the turbulent waves down below, an unexpected event tragically happens.
El guardián del paraíso
Set Decoration
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.
La hermana alegría
Set Decoration
Soledad enters a women reformatory led by modest nuns who look constantly for the welfare of their girls. These include the Sister Consolación, a humorous and cheerful nun who uses a little disconcerting methods to teach but very useful for the girls, to try to forget their past and prepare for a better future. Soledad takes confidence quickly and said she hopes a son of Fernando, a womanizing Andalusian young gentleman very attractive, which coincidentally, the Sister knows.
La reina mora
Set Decoration
During the April Fair in Seville neighborhood of Santa Cruz, Antonio, in love with Coral, will meet Esteban, her boyfriend. The end result is that Antonio is hurt and Esteban goes to prison. To avoid gossip, Coral asks his brother of moving. Cotufo agrees and the two move to a mansion in which, according to legend, lived a Christian and the daughter of a Moorish king, who died of grief of love.
Morena clara
Set Designer
Trini, a gipsy girl, and her uncle Regalito are tried for the theft of several hams. Some time later, she presents herself, disguised as a maid, at the house of her former prosecutor, who ends up falling in love with her.
Merry Christmas
Set Decoration
A marriage without great financial resources and bad luck wins a little lamb in a raffle. Once they have decided to have it for dinner on Christmas Eve, the couple warn that their children have grown too fond of the animal, now christened as Bolita.
Un caballero andaluz
Production Design
In the farmhouse Los Laureles, owned by Don Juan Manuel Almodovar, wealthy Andalusian landowner, everything is being prepared to receive José Luis, only child of Juan Manuel, who is being educated in a Jesuit school in England and is returning for a holiday with his father. Since the death of his wife, Juan Manuel has set all his love in his son. The father does everything his child says, even when he is asked to accompany him to the Venta del Remedio where a blind gypsy called "Colorín" lives. But at the after party a serious accident occurs
Love on Wheels
Set Decoration
A taxi driver participates in a singing contest of a radio station for non-professionals and enters the final round. Being among the finalists he meets at the radio station a famous singer and falls in love with her.
Viento del norte
Set Decoration
Haute Couture
Set Decoration
Tona, model of a fashion house goes to see her ex-boyfriend to claim for some letters and finds him dead. Under the fear that the crime is attributed to her and also because she will soon marry Ramon, a rich young man of good family, she says nothing and goes to work as usual to show models. Meanwhile, the police opens an investigation.
Hollyhock
Set Decoration
Malvaloca, dancer and singer, go to Las Canteras when she finds out that Salvador, her exboyfriend has been hurt. Salvador's college, Leonardo, goes with her and falls in love. They start a relation.
Nuits andalouses
Set Decoration
Dos caminos
Set Decoration