Enrique Alarcón Explained

Enrique Alarcón
Birth Date:	13 June 1917
Birth Place:	Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), Spain
Death Place:	Madrid, Spain
Birth Name:	Enrique Alarcón Sánchez-Manjavacas
Occupation:	Art director
Yearsactive:	1943-1985 (film)

Enrique Alarcón Sánchez-Manjavacas (1917–1995) was a Spanish film art director and set decorator.^[1] He worked on over two hundred films, mostly Spanish, but also in foreign films shot in Spain, such as King of Kings (1961).^[2]

Alarcón received the Honorary Goya Award presented by the Spanish Film Academy in 1991.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree (1943)
• Fantastic Night (1943)
• The Phantom and Dona Juanita (1945)
• Lady in Ermine (1947)
• The Faith (1947)
• Saturday Night (1950)
• The Girl at the Inn (1951)
• From Madrid to Heaven (1952)
• Estrella of the Sierra Morena (1952)
• Feather in the Wind (1952)
• It Happened in Seville (1955)
• The Lost City (1955)
• Congress in Seville (1955)
• The Sun Comes Out Every Day (1958)
• The Violet Seller (1958)
• The Nightingale in the Mountains (1958)
• A Girl Against Napoleon (1959)
• Alfonso XII and María Cristina (1960)
• Heaven at Home (1960)
• King of Kings (1961)
• The Fair of the Dove (1963)
• Samba (1965)
• The Lost Woman (1966)
• Road to Rocío (1966)
• The Hunting Party (1971)

Bibliography

• Sally Faulkner. A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film in the 1960s. Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
• Book: Fernando Diéguez Rodríguez-Montero. 2008. Enrique Alarcón: testigo de nuestra historia, artífice de nuestro cine. El cine: una mirada interdisciplinar . 17. 89–117. 978-84-95964-56-4.

Notes and References

1. Faulkner p.106
2. Web site: Matte Paintings and Miniatures at the Epic flms of Samuel Bronston. 30 October 2013. Lizcano, Domingo.
3. Web site: Y el Goya de Honor es para… Enrique Alarcón. Goya Awards. es.