Alejandro Pérez Lugín

Alejandro Pérez Lugín
Alejandro Pérez Lugín
Born	22 February 1870 Madrid, Spain
Died	5 September 1926 A Coruña, Spain
Occupation(s)	Director, screenwriter, journalist

Alejandro Pérez Lugín (1870–1926) was a Spanish writer and film director. He attended university in Santiago de Compostela, and a number of his books have Galician themes. His 1921 novel Currito of the Cross, which uses bullfighting as its backdrop, has been adapted into film four times.^[1] Pérez Lugin himself directed successful film adaptations of two of his works during the silent era.

Works

Literature

• La Casa de la Troya (1915), Fastenrath Award
• Currito de la Cruz (1921)
• La corredoira y la rúa (1922)
• Arminda Moscoso (Posthumous, 1928)
• La virgen del Rocío ya entró en Triana (Posthumous, 1929)

Selected filmography as director

• The House of Troy (1925)
• Currito of the Cross (1926)

References

Bibliography

• Labanyi, Jo & Pavlović, Tatjana. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

External links

• Works by or about Alejandro Pérez Lugín at Internet Archive
• Alejandro Pérez Lugín at IMDb

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