Luis García Berlanga
Born
12 July 1921 (104)
Place of Birth
Valencia, España
Also known as
Luis G. Berlanga, Luis Gª 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 the...
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.
Filmography (40)
Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
2025
El joven Berlanga
2022
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
2012
Enrique Herreros
2011
Por la gracia de Luis
2009
Calle Bardem
2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
2004
El sueño de la maestra
2002
La ley del cholo II
2000
París-Tombuctú
1999
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
1998
Everyone Off to Jail
1993
Moors and Christians
1987
A la pálida luz de la luna
1985
The Heifer
1985
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
1984
National III
1982
National Heritage
1981
A Tied Blasé
1981
Erotic Stories
1980
The National Shotgun
1978
Life Size
1974
Long Live the Bride and Groom
1970
Sharon in Scarlet
1969
Tuset Street
1968
Días de viejo color
1968
No somos de piedra
1968
Las pirañas
1967
October in Madrid
1965
The Executioner
1963
Death and the Lumberjack
1963
The Four Truths
1962
Placido
1962
Streetcar for Sale
1959
Miracles of Thursday
1957
The Rocket from Calabuch
1956
Boyfriend in Sight
1954
That Happy Couple
1953
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1953