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Luis García Berlanga
Director

Luis García Berlanga

12 Jul 1921Born
13 Nov 2010Died
89Age at death
41Credits

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.

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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

  1. 2012The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The ExecutionerFilm: Interviewee
  2. 2005Calle BardemFilm: Interviewee
  3. 2002El sueño de la maestraFilm: Director, Writer
  4. 2000La ley del cholo IIFilm
  5. 1999París-TombuctúFilm: Director, Writer
  6. 1998Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amandoFilm: Luis Berlanga
  7. 1997Blasco IbáñezSeries: Director, Writer (2 episodes)
  8. 1994Villarriba y VillabajoSeries: Director, Creator (25 episodes)
  9. 1993Everyone Off to JailFilm: Director, Writer
  10. 1987Moors and ChristiansFilm: Director, Screenplay
  11. 1985The HeiferFilm: Director, Screenplay
  12. 1984De mica en mica s’omple la picaFilm: Peris
  13. 1982National IIIFilm: Director, Writer
  14. 1981National HeritageFilm: Director, Writer
  15. 1981A Tied BlaséFilm
  16. 1980Erotic StoriesFilm: Hombre del metro
  17. 1978The National ShotgunFilm: Director, Screenplay
  18. 1977Una noche embarazosaFilm: Writer
  19. 1977Paper TigersFilm
  20. 1974To My Dear Mother on Her BirthdayFilm: Novel
  21. 1974Life SizeFilm: Director, Writer
  22. 1970Long Live the Bride and GroomFilm: Director, Writer
  23. 1969Sharon in ScarletFilm: Víctor
  24. 1968Tuset StreetFilm: Aparicio
  25. 1968Días de viejo colorFilm: Mr. Marshall
  26. 1968No somos de piedraFilm
  27. 1967Las pirañasFilm: Film Buff, Director, Screenplay
  28. 1965October in MadridFilm
  29. 1963The ExecutionerFilm: Director, Screenplay
  30. 1963Death and the LumberjackFilm: Director
  31. 1962The Four TruthsFilm: Director
  32. 1962PlacidoFilm: Director, Screenplay
  33. 1959Streetcar for SaleFilm: Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited), Writer
  34. 1958Familia provisionalFilm: Writer
  35. 1957Miracles of ThursdayFilm: Director, Screenplay
  36. 1956The Rocket from CalabuchFilm: Director, Screenplay
  37. 1954Boyfriend in SightFilm: Director, Screenplay
  38. 1953That Happy CoupleFilm: Director, Screenplay
  39. 1953Welcome Mr. Marshall!Film: Director, Screenplay
  40. 1950El circoFilm: Director
  41. 1949Paseo por una guerra antiguaFilm: Director, Screenplay

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