Francisco Merino
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Francisco Merino.
Born: September 11, 1931
Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain
Known For
El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.
The Boarding School
El Internado Laguna Negra was a Spanish television drama-thriller focusing on the students of a fictional boarding school in a forest, where teenagers are sent by their parents to study. The boarding school is situated in a forest far from the city, on the outskirts on which macabre events occur. The series debut on 24 May 2007, and is a production of Antena 3. Although the show is recorded and produced in HD, it is only broadcast in SD. However, an HD Blu-ray Disc release has been announced.
The Boarding School
El Internado Laguna Negra was a Spanish television drama-thriller focusing on the students of a fictional boarding school in a forest, where teenagers are sent by their parents to study. The boarding school is situated in a forest far from the city, on the outskirts on which macabre events occur. The series debut on 24 May 2007, and is a production of Antena 3. Although the show is recorded and produced in HD, it is only broadcast in SD. However, an HD Blu-ray Disc release has been announced.
La Máscara Negra
El Sur
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
Cuéntame cómo pasó
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Angel or Demon
The Crime of Cuenca
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.
Paper Birds
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.
Tarancón, el quinto mandamiento
Biography of Cardinal Tarancón, a key figure during the Transition period due to his efforts to reconcile the "two Spains." The assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco by ETA on December 20, 1973, prompted the cardinal to leave Madrid after receiving death threats. Once far from the city, Tarancón recalls what his life was like as a young priest on the run during the Civil War (1936-1939).
Filmography
as Francisco Franco
as Juan de Ribera
as Ramón
as Arias Navarro
as Marcelino
as Franco
as Don Antonio
as Alfonso Ceballos
as Alfonso Ceballos (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Saturnino
as Juez
as Teodoro Acín
as Vicente
as Adolfo
as Maragato
as Agente de tráfico
as Fojar
as Martínez
as Secretario
as Dotros
as El Cura
as El cura
as Mastro Augusto
as Don Mariano
as Don Senén
as Dentista
as Alonso Esteban
as Noceda
as Ramiro
as Don Leandro
as Jaime Costa
as Enamorado
as El Correo
as Villalba
as Beaulieu
as Court Secretary
as Hovstad
as Salomón
as El amigo
as Bruno
as Alguacil
as Jefe de Julián
as Magistrado
as Juez
as Comisario
as Afranio Burro
as Inspector de policía
as Pallavicini (segment "Suore")