From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rafael Azcona Fernández (24 October 1926 – 24 March 2008) was an awarded Spanish screenwriter and novelist who has worked with some of the best Spanish and international filmmakers. Azcona won five Goya Awards during his career, including a lifetime achievement award in 1998. He was born in the northern Spanish city Logroño on 24 October 1926. Azcona initially began his career writing for humor magazines. He became known as a screenwriter when he penned the screenplay for the film, El Pisito (The Little Apartment), which was based on his own novel. The 1959 film was directed by Italian film director, Marco Ferreri. Azcona teamed up with director Fernando Trueba in “Belle Époque,” which won an Academy Award for best foreign film in 1994. He collaborated with other Spanish directors including Luis Garcia Berlanga, Jose Luis Cuerda, Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez, Pedro Olea, and Carlos Saura. Azcona was also awarded the Spanish Fine Arts Gold Medal in 1994. Rafael Azcona died at his home in Madrid, Spain, on 24 March 2008, at the age of 81.
José Luis López Vázquez. ¡Qué disparate!
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
(Himself)
Rafael Azcona, oficio de guionista
(Himself)
Rafael Azcona
(Self (archive footage))
The Little Apartment
((uncredited))
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
(Interviewee)
Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí
(Self)
Belle Époque
(Screenplay)
Belle Époque
(Story)
La Grande Bouffe
(Screenplay)
The Executioner
(Screenplay)
Butterfly
(Screenplay)
The Enchanted Forest
(Screenplay)
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
(Screenplay)
It Can Be Done Amigo
(Screenplay)
Sound of the Sea
(Screenplay)
Tarot
(Story)
Tarot
(Screenplay)
The Girl of Your Dreams
(Writer)
The Conjugal Bed
(Screenplay)
My Daughter Hildegart
(Writer)
Honeycomb
(Screenplay)
Mafioso
(Screenplay)
Chechu y familia
(Screenplay)
Year of Enlightment
(Writer)
The Wheelchair
(Screenplay)
The Wheelchair
(Novel)
Long Live the Bride and Groom
(Screenplay)
The National Shotgun
(Screenplay)
Moors and Christians
(Screenplay)
The Garden of Delights
(Writer)
Fischia Il Sesso
(Screenplay)
Peppermint Frappé
(Screenplay)
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
(Novel)
La Celestina
(Writer)
The Green March
(Writer)
Honey
(Screenplay)
Far from the Trees
(Other)
Ay, Carmela!
(Screenplay)
Don't Touch the White Woman!
(Writer)
Blood and Sand
(Writer)
The Last Woman
(Writer)
Bésame, tonta
(Writer)
Franky Banderas
(Writer)
Franky Banderas
(Story)
The Audience
(Story)
Kiss the Other Sheik
(Writer)
The Ape Woman
(Writer)
In Praise of Older Women
(Writer)
127 millones libres de impuestos
(Writer)
Cousin Angelica
(Screenplay)
The Court of the Pharaoh
(Writer)
El poder del deseo
(Novel)
Madrid, 1987
(Dialogue)
Siempre hay un camino a la derecha
(Writer)
Placido
(Screenstory)
Latin Lovers
(Screenplay)
In the Eye of the Hurricane
(Screenplay)
The Secret of the Blue Men
(Screenplay)
The Secret of the Blue Men
(Story)
Anna and the Wolves
(Writer)
Cross Current
(Screenplay)
Run for Your Wife
(Screenplay)
Airlift
(Writer)
The Wedding March
(Story)
The Wedding March
(Screenplay)
El monumento
(Writer)
The Heifer
(Screenplay)
The Heifer
(Story)
L'Estate
(Screenplay)
The Conjugal Bed
(Story)
Controsesso
(Screenplay)
The Harem
(Story)
The Queen of Spain
(Characters)
La cera virgen
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Death and the Lumberjack
(Screenplay)
De los reptiles-saurios en los cafés
(Short Story)
Los muertos no se tocan, nene
(Novel)
The Europeans
(Novel)
The Little Apartment
(Novel)
The Little Apartment
(Screenplay)
Il fischio al naso
(Screenplay)
Life Size
(Screenplay)
El divorcio que viene
(Writer)
La familia bien, gracias
(Writer)
Goodbye from the Heart
(Story)
Goodbye from the Heart
(Screenplay)
Días de cine
(Thanks)
The Man with the Balloons
(Writer)
Martes de Carnaval
(Screenplay)
Chechu y familia
(Story)
The Four Truths
(Writer)
Banderas, the Tyrant
(Writer)
The Impeccable Sinner
(Writer)
Hay que deshacer la casa
(Writer)
Pasodoble
(Writer)
María querida
(Writer)
The Flight of the Dove
(Writer)
Suspiros de España (y Portugal)
(Writer)
The Seducer
(Writer)
Tranvía a la Malvarrosa
(Writer)
Little Spanish Soldier
(Writer)
Streetcar for Sale
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The Challenges
(Writer)
Tuset Street
(Writer)
Las secretas intenciones
(Writer)
Bye Bye Monkey
(Writer)
Gran Slalom
(Writer)
A Man Called Autumn Flower
(Writer)
National Heritage
(Writer)
How Good the Whites Are
(Writer)
King of the River
(Writer)
National III
(Writer)
La revolución matrimonial
(Writer)
El paraíso ya no es lo que era
(Writer)
The Anchorite
(Writer)
A Perfect Couple
(Writer)
L'ultimo Pulcinella
(Writer)
La adúltera
(Writer)
Las pirañas
(Screenplay)
Pintadas
(Writer)
The Blind Sunflowers
(Writer)
Placido
(Screenplay)
Un rincón para querernos
(Writer)
Una noche embarazosa
(Writer)
La guerra del cerdo
(Writer)
Don Chisciotte
(Writer)
La mujer infiel
(Writer)
La mujer cualquiera
(Writer)
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
(Screenplay)
Pim, pam, pum… ¡fuego!
(Screenplay)
The Galíndez File
(Screenplay)
Los Desastres de la Guerra
(Writer)
Los Desastres de la Guerra
(Creator)