Manuel Fontanals

Рождение : 1893-07-26, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Смерть : 1972-09-17

Фильмы

Castle of Purity
Set Decoration
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
National Mechanics
Production Design
A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.
Aunt Isabel's Garden
Art Direction
A ship carrying Conquistadors is wrecked and the survivors are thrown ashore to struggle through the Yucatan jungle.
Chanoc vs. the Tiger and the Vampire
Production Design
Chanoc must defeat an evil vampire known as Count Frankenhausen.
Rosario
Production Design
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun ...
El profe
Production Design
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
Narda o el verano
Production Design
Two friends on a summer getaway find and fall for a mysterious woman who will change their lives forever.
Людоед
Art Direction
В поисках работы Кейн нанимается матросом на корабль к профессору Меллеру, ведущему исследования морской флоры и фауны. Спустя время Кейн обнаруживает, что на самом деле профессора интересуют не научные изыскания, а слитки золота, находящиеся на затонувшем корабле. А там, где пахнет большими деньгами и море кишит акулами, не обойтись без крови.
Un Quijote sin mancha
Production Design
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
Memories of the Future
Production Design
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
The Big Cube
Art Direction
A young woman and her drug addict boyfriend plot to drive the woman's stepmother insane with LSD in a plot to secure an inheritance.
The Chinese Room
Art Direction
An unorthodox doctor makes a house call to the Acapulco abode of a mushroom addict.
Corazón salvaje
Production Design
The Devil's Visitations
Art Direction
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
The Devil's Visitations
Set Designer
A young architect returns from Europe to live in the house of his uncles and cousins, where someone pretends to be the Devil.
The Scapular
Art Direction
A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.
Don Juan 67
Production Design
Mauricio, millionaire, and irreclaimable Don Juan, lives only for and to seduce women of every class and condition. With the help of his butler manages to capture the hearts of many to abandon and then having a panic marriage.
Pedro Paramo
Production Design
When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister place, inhabited by mysterious voices and whispers…
The Right to Be Born
Production Design
The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris
Production Design
Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Black Wind
Art Direction
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust storms that are called the 'black wind'. Based on true events.
El señor doctor
Production Design
It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
Escuela para solteras
Production Design
All-star ranchera fest, rom-com style. Four charros, four eligible young ladies.
The Golden Cockerel
Set Designer
A poor, but very lucky man in the cock fighting, is hired by a rich man, but both are in love with the same woman
El Padrecito
Production Design
Young priest Father Sebastián is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián. The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show. Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly.
Así amaron nuestros padres
Production Design
Elderly roue interferes in the love life of a young woman because she's secretly his daughter. Remake of En Tiempos De Don Porfirio.
De color moreno
Production Design
Cri Cri el Grillito Cantor
Production Design
Biography of the famous composer of children's music Gabilondo Soler. Starts from his childhood, when he worked as a pastor and grandmother tried to teach him to play the piano. Later he went to the city to study music theory and began writing his first songs.
Autumn Days
Production Design
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house whom she met recently...
El rey del tomate
Production Design
El rey del tomate ("The Tomato King") is a 1964 Mexican comedy-drama film, directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Eulalio González, Luz Márquez, and Emma Roldán.
The Invasion of the Vampires
Production Design
A doctor and his assistant hunt down a vampire named Count Frankenhausen, who is terrorizing the populace.
Ткач чудес
Production Design
В ночь под рождество в маленькую мексиканскую деревушку въезжают на осле индеец Арнульфо и его жена Хансита, которая с минуты на минуту должна родить. Местная акушерка Ремедиос и ее воспитанник, двадцатилетний Теофилос, решили использовать создавшуюся ситуацию в своих корыстных целях. И вот по деревне разнесся слух, что в хлеву у Ремедиос рожает женщина, приехавшая на осле как дева Мария. Охваченные религиозным фанатизмом, крстьяне кинулись к дому Ремедиос. Они верят, что совершается чудо, что «новый» Христос, который должен родиться, принесет всем счастье и благосостояние. Не скупясь, они дают Ремедиос и Теофилосу деньги для будущего ребенка. Священник не в силах доказать фанатичной толпе, что родился самый обыкновенный ребенок. И тогда он идет на крайние меры: незаметно умерщвляет ребенка. Виля, что новорожденный оказался смертным, толпа верующих быстро расходится.
The Bloody Vampire
Production Design
Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.
Письма Росалии
Production Design
Учительница, решившая построить новую школу в удручающем районе, обращается за помощью к молодому инженеру, чем вызывает гнев бессердечного местного вождя. Однажды крестник вождя заболевает желтой лихорадкой, но его спасает благодаря тому, что инженер отвозит его на мотоцикле к городскому врачу, и спасает ему жизнь. Город участвует в строительстве, несмотря на противодействие вождя, но все усложняется, когда инженер чувствует влечение к жене вождя.
Хуана Гальо
Production Design
Анжела Рамос по прозвищу Хуана Гальо после того, как убили её отца и её жениха, присоединяется к повстанцам в борьбе с правительством. Она заручается поддержкой всего города, в том числе некоторых из тех, кто ранее был сторонником правительства.
The Curse of the Doll People
Production Design
Four men are cursed by a voodoo priest for stealing a sacred idol from his temple. Soon a band of murderous "doll men" are after the men and their families.
Teresa
Production Design
Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.
Quinceañera
Production Design
María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.
Macario
Art Direction
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Born to Love
Production Design
El vestido de novia
Production Design
A young professional hires a sex-worker to pass as his wife in a situation that requires him to seem married. Later they think about getting married for reals... but mostly they just recite monologues to each other.
Любовное свидание
Production Design
Фильм о женщине, которая сражается со своей богатой и авторитетной семьей за право выйти замуж за любимого человека.
Vanilla, Bronze and to Die
Production Design
A beautiful woman, fatally ill of the heart, is torn between the love of a poor sculptor and a forced marriage with the sadistic son of a millionaire.
La Diana cazadora
Production Design
A great love story based on the idea and development of the famous monument that decorating Mexico City.
Adam and Eve
Art Direction
Version of the story of Adam and Eve.
Los amantes
Production Design
Mexican feature film
Unfaithful Wives
Production Design
A bunch of stories where wives are unfaithful for different reasons: money, revenge or pleasure.
La fuerza del deseo
Production Design
Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
La sospechosa
Production Design
Young woman returns home from her travels and discovers that her mother's new husband is up to no good.
El plagiario
Production Design
Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
De ranchero a empresario
Production Design
Ranch-owner visits the big city to help his brother launch a theatrical venture.
Untouched
Production Design
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
Rebellion of the Hanged
Production Design
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
The Boy and the Fog
Art Direction
Marta is obsessed with protecting her son from the genetic predisposition to schizophrenia that she has hidden from her husband.
Adventure in Rio
Production Design
Tourist gets bonked on the head, suffers an amnesiac fugue, wanders away from her husband and children, becomes an evil prostitute-y thief-y saloon gal.
Quiero vivir
Production Designer
Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
Siete mujeres
Production Design
Mexican feature film
Por qué peca la mujer
Production Design
Working-class girl-next--door type is seduced into a high-glam lifestyle when an oily promoter helps launch her as a nightclub singer; she throws over her decent-simple-guy boyfriend and loses her moral compass.
La noche es nuestra
Production Design
Journalist meets an unforgettable woman, tracks her down and discovers all her tragic past.
No niego mi pasado
Art Designer
A 1952 film by Alberto Gout.
Siempre tuya
Production Design
Husband and wife leave their farm and move to the big city. Husband becomes a famous ranchera singer.
From Can-Can to Mambo
Production Design
Young man convinces his conservative uncle that trendy modern stuff is fun.
Las Islas Marias
Art Direction
Las Islas Marias stars Pedro Infante as a man who must face time in jail, even though he never committed the crime. While on the inside, he learns important life lessons that actually make him a better man.
Los amantes
Art Designer
A burglar and a bar girl fall in love and decide to go straight, but complications.
Burlada
Production Design
Fancy gentleman uses his charms to exploit a bunch of women.
Víctimas del pecado
Production Design
A nightclub performer decides to raise the baby boy she found abandoned in a trash can, putting her job and social life in jeopardy.
The Adventuress
Production Design
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
The Mark of the Skunk
Production Design
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
Duelo en las montañas
Art Designer
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
Duelo en las montañas
Production Design
1910: Revolutionary leader escapes military, hides in small town, falls in love.
La malquerida
Art Direction
Emilio Fernandez directs Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz in a classic tale of family and obsession. Raimunda's daughter Acacia hates her stepfather Esteban, and in order to escape her suffocating home life she's accepted a marriage proposal from a man she doesn't even love. But Esteban has become obsessed with Acacia, and in order to ensure that she doesn't leave he's plotting to murder the girl's unsuspecting fiancée. As Esteban's true nature emerges, mother and daughter must band together to support one another and make sure that their family bond remains strong even in the darkest of times.
Мексиканская девушка
Production Design
Один из лучших фильмов режиссера Эмилио Фернандеса — история бывшего заключенного, начинающего жизнь с чистого листа. Мужчина женится на очаровательной Паломе и принимается обрабатывать землю, но местные фермеры не дают ему покоя и начинают вставлять палки в колеса.
Макловия
Production Design
На небольшом мексиканском острове живёт группа индейцев. Они живут, придерживаясь своих традиций и не воспринимают посторонних. Красавица Макловия и Хосе Мария любят друг друга, но отец девушки не позволяет им пожениться и противится любым связям между ними из-за бедности юноши. Молодой человек стремится обучиться и заработать средства для покупки собственной рыбацкой лодки, чтобы заслужить расположение её отца. В то же время на остров прибывает батальон солдат и жестокий сержант положил глаз на Макловию.
El cuarto mandamiento
Production Design
A Mexican family drama.
Рио Эскондидо
Production Design
По просьбе самого президента Мексики, несмотря на болезнь сердца, молодая учительница Росаура Саласар отправляется в заброшенный городок Рио-Эскондидо, чтобы возглавить школу, которая была закрыта в течение нескольких месяцев. После её прибытия Росаура должна противостоять тирану-помещику Рехино Сандовалю, который нещадно эксплуатирует крестьян и убивает любого, кто встанет на его пути. Дон Рехино влюбляется в Росауру, но это делает её жизнь только адом…
The Kneeling Goddess
Production Design
Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.
Возлюбленная
Production Design
Во времена мексиканской революции генерал повстанцев Хосе Хуан Рейес и его войско захватывают консервативный город Чолула, расположенный недалеко от Мехико. Генерал требует от самых богатых горожан пожертвований на мексиканскую революцию. Однако его планы нарушаются, когда он влюбляется в сеньориту Беатрис Пенафьель, своенравную дочь самого богатого человека города.
Sol y sombra
Production Design
A drama film directed by Rafael E. Portas.
Soy un prófugo
Art Direction
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
Pepita Jimenez
Production Design
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
Bugambilia
Production Design
In mid-nineteenth century Guanajuato, the beauty and charm of the young heiress Amalia conquers the lowly foreman Ricardo with fatal results. Prevented from consummating their love, Ricardo is going to Guanajuato where again later become the rich owner of a mine. On his return, fate has prepared a tragic encounter with Amalia.
Marina
Art Direction
Adaptation of a Spanish operetta about a love triangle between two fisherman and a human female.
Tuya en cuerpo y alma
Production Design
The Secret of the Spinster
Production Design
A homeless orphan girl is adopted by a wealthy man against his wife wishes. When the man dies, the girl endures endless humiliations under the wife's harsh grip, so she finds solace with mysterious old maid who lives near by.
Gran Hotel
Production Design
Cantinflas is a vagrant being evicted for not paying rent, after wandering gets a job at the 'Grand Hotel' through a friend, that's confused by Count Zapatini, who is undercover in the hotel, stealing a gem making this funny movie more complicated.
María Eugenia
Production Design
Before marrying María Eugenia, landowner Carlos are away to visit her godmother to break the promise to marry his daughter. The godmother is dying, Carlos quiets and everything takes an unexpected course.
The Spirit's Canyon
Production Design
The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.
El hombre de la máscara de hierro
Art Direction
Yo bailé con Don Porfirio
Art Direction
Light comedy in which Joaquin Cortes and Mapy Pardavé join their talents, written and directed by Gilberto Martinez Solares. It deals with the life of a pair of twins from a provincial family who emigrated to the city, then one begins to work in a music magazine and occasionally is confused with her sister, which causes problems with their respective boyfriends.
The Three Musketeers
Production Design
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Jesus of Nazareth
Production Design
The biblical story of The Messiah from his baptism through his crucifixion.
Mi viuda alegre
Production Design
A 1942 film directed by Miguel M. Delgado.
¿Quién te quiere a tí?
Production Design
Neither he nor she are very handsome, not to say ugly, and how they would like to be good looking to give and receive compliments, and that someone loves them.
Creo en Dios
Production Design
A 1941 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
El jefe máximo
Production Design
A 1940 film directed by Fernando de Fuentes.
Madre a la fuerza
Production Design
A 1940 film directed by Robert Quigley.
¡Que viene mi marido!
Production Design
Rom-com: collecting on a big inheritance "forces" a family to play games with their daughter's marital status.
Miente y serás feliz
Art Direction
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...
Miente y serás feliz
Production Design
A Spanish, Juan, is obsessed with telling the truth always. As a result he is consistently in the middle of troubles...