Rafael Azcona
Rafael Azcona ( born October 24, 1926 in Logroño, La Rioja, † March 24, 2008 in Madrid) was a Spanish screenwriter.
Life
Azcona was with nearly 100 filmed screenplays as one of the most important writers of Spanish cinema. Throughout his career, he had begun as a writer, he worked with a number of renowned directors such as Marco Ferreri, Carlos Saura and Fernando Trueba and was awarded various Spanish film awards; five times he received the CEC Award, six times the Goya ( including an award for his life's work ). Internationally, he was hardly considered at award ceremonies, however, the film written by him Belle Epoque won the 1992 Oscar for best foreign language film. In the 1970s, he wrote the screenplay for two Western with Bud Spencer.
As opposed to the oppression of the people by the dictatorship of Franco, which he themed repeatedly in his books, he often came in the crosshairs of the Spanish censorship.