Known For
Directing
Born
Jul 12, 1921
Died
Nov 13, 2010
Place of Birth
Valencia, España
Credits
51 titles
Luis García Berlanga
Biography
One of the best known filmmakers in the world and director of some of the most famous films of Spanish cinema, tender in his vision of the characters, but satirical to the point of biting in his social analysis, clearly critical despite the censorship of the Franco regime. He was born in 1921 into a wealthy Valencian family. After the Second World War, he studied at the Escuela Oficial de Cine (IIEC/EOC), where he would later become a professor. There he met Juan Antonio Bardem, and together they made their first film. His narrative ability, together with the sharpness of his satire, bordering on nonsense, made him a popular filmmaker, but also valued by critics. Nevertheless, within his comic line he oscillates between tenderness and the grotesqueness of his choral comedies. Between both extremes are his first films, written in collaboration with Rafael Azcona, in which he develops a black humor, characteristic of both, corrosive denunciations of social hypocrisy and the death penalty. In recent years he was president of the Filmoteca Nacional de España and director of a collection of erotic novels and short stories.
Known For
Filmography
Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
Self (Archive footage)
El joven Berlanga
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
Interviewee
Enrique Herreros
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Por la gracia de Luis
Himself
Calle Bardem
Interviewee
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
Himself
El sueño de la maestra
Director
La ley del cholo II
París-Tombuctú
Director
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
Luis Berlanga
Blasco Ibáñez
Director
Villarriba y Villabajo
Director
Everyone Off to Jail
Director
Moors and Christians
Director
A la pálida luz de la luna
Himself
The Heifer
Director
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
Peris
National III
Director
National Heritage
Director
A Tied Blasé
Erotic Stories
Hombre del metro
The National Shotgun
Director
Ciné regards
Self
Una noche embarazosa
Writer
Paper Tigers
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Novel
Life Size
Director
Long Live the Bride and Groom
Director
Sharon in Scarlet
Víctor
Tuset Street
Aparicio
Días de viejo color
Mr. Marshall
No somos de piedra
Las pirañas
Film Buff
October in Madrid
Strange Voyage
Idea
The Executioner
Director
Death and the Lumberjack
Director
The Four Truths
Director
Placido
Director
Streetcar for Sale
Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)
We Are 18 Years Old
Associate Producer
Familia provisional
Writer
Miracles of Thursday
Director
The Rocket from Calabuch
Director
Boyfriend in Sight
Director
That Happy Couple
Director
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Director
El circo
Director