Luis García Berlanga

Directing·Jul 12, 1921·Valencia, España

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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.

Film	Credit
El sueño de la maestra2002 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
París-Tombuctú1999 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Everyone Off to Jail1993 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Moors and Christians1987 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Heifer1985 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
National III1982 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
National Heritage1981 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The National Shotgun1978 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Life Size1974 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Long Live the Bride and Groom1970 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Las pirañas1967 · Film Buff, Director, Screenplay	Film Buff, Director, Screenplay
The Executioner1963 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Death and the Lumberjack1963 · Director	Director
The Four Truths1962 · Director	Director
Placido1962 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Miracles of Thursday1957 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Rocket from Calabuch1956 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Boyfriend in Sight1954 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
That Happy Couple1953 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Welcome Mr. Marshall!1953 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
El circo1950 · Director	Director
Paseo por una guerra antigua1949 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay