Juan de Orduña | |
Birth Date: | 27 December 1900 |
Birth Place: | Madrid, Spain |
Death Date: | 3 February 1974 (age 73) |
Death Place: | Madrid, Spain |
Birth Name: | Juan de Orduña y Fernández-Shaw |
Juan de Orduña y Fernández-Shaw (27 December 1900 – 3 February 1974) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor. Subservient to the ideological tenets and preferences of Francoism,[1] he was one of the regime's standout directors during the autarchy period. Nevertheless, his film "Follow the Legion" has been seen as a disguised story of homosexual love, and de Orduña was a homosexual.[2] He particularly earned recognition for his epic-historicist films,[3] including the extravagant Madness for Love (1948), "an immense commercial success".[4]