
Antonio Momplet (1899 – August 10, 1974) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He worked in Spain, France, Argentina and Mexico. Antonio Momplet was born in Cádiz , Andalusia . He worked as a journalist and translator of foreign films in Barcelona until 1927, when he moved to Paris and began to work for Gaumont . In the mid-1930s he moved back to Spain where he directed four feature films and founded the film journal Cine Art , which quickly became influential. To avoid the Spanish Civil War , he moved to Argentina in 1937, and made eight feature films the following years. In 1943 he moved to Mexico to join the film industry there, and made a number of Mexican films both as director and writer for others, before he moved back to Buenos Aires in 1946. In 1952 he returned to Spain. During his final Spanish period he made films such as the Spaghetti Western parody Due contro tutti , before he retired in 1964. He settled in Cadaqués where he died in 1974.

Las de Caín

Vértigo

Viento del norte

La cumparsita

Amok

A media luz

El Buen Mozo

Yo no elegí mi vida

Il gladiatore invincibile

Remolino de pasión

Los hijos artificiales

En el viejo Buenos Aires

Julia y el celacanto

Café Cantante

Due contro tutti

Toscanito y los detectives

La hija del mar

Turbión

Novios para las muchachas

El hermano José

Buongiorno primo amore!