Norberto Soliño (born 1902) was a cinematographer businessman.[1]

Norberto Soliño
Born1902
FatherRamón Soliño

He was born in Murguía, La Coruña.[2] He moved to La Habana with his family and he studied in a school in Pokespaie, New Jersey.[2] Then he worked with his parents and he played in the Cuba national football team, but he got an injury and left it.[2]

In 1936 he worked with his father Ramón on CIFESA in La Habana,[3] and they distributed films on Hispanoamerica.[4] At the end of 1937 he led the direction of Hispano-Film-Produktion along Johann W. Ther,[5][6] and CINA.[7] This project was received by the Germans through the figure of Wilhelm Ther and became part of a powerful cinematographic industry which was expanded since Hitler's rise to power.[8] He began offering contracts to many Spanish stars,[9] so he hired Florián Rey, Benito Perojo, Imperio Argentina, Estrellita Castro, Miguel Ligero, Roberto Rey and Ricardo Merino, between others.[10] He produced El barbero de Sevilla (1938) with Estrellita Castro and Roberto Rey,[11] and La gitanilla (1940).[12]

After the Spanish Civil War he came back to Spain.[13]

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  1. ^ Fernández, Martín (23 June 2019). "Narciso R. Lanza, un barreirense edil en La Habana y presidente del Centro Gallego". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Nicolás Meseguer 2004, p. 111.
  3. ^ Torre, Franco (25 September 2015). "Noches andaluzas para la Alemania nazi". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  4. ^ Nicolás Meseguer 2004, p. 103.
  5. ^ García Ruiz, Sonia (16 January 2011). "El Hollywood español". El Día de Córdoba (in Spanish). Joly Digital. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
  6. ^ Crusells, Magí (2001). Las Brigadas Internacionales en la pantalla. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. p. 248. ISBN 9788484271499.
  7. ^ Diez Puertas, Emeterio (2003). Historia social del cine en España. Editorial Fundamentos. pp. 117, 120. ISBN 9788424509514.
  8. ^ Talens, Jenaro; Díez, Santos Zunzunegui (1998). Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema. U of Minnesota Press. p. 73. ISBN 9780816629756.
  9. ^ Winkel, Roel Vande; Welch, D. (7 February 2007). Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema. Springer. p. 45. ISBN 9780230289321.
  10. ^ Nicolás Meseguer 2004, p. 102.
  11. ^ Nicolás Meseguer 2004, p. 131.
  12. ^ Garrido, José Ángel (2003). Minorías en el cine: la etnia gitana en la pantalla. Edicions Universitat de Barcelona. p. 241. ISBN 9788447526055.
  13. ^ Gómez Tello (9 June 1946). "¿Quién es quién en la pantalla nacional= Norberto Soliño". Primer Plano (295).

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