Luis García Berlanga
Directing
1921-07-12 · Valencia, España
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
Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
2025 · Movie
El joven Berlanga
2022 · Movie
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
2012 · Movie
Enrique Herreros
2011 · Movie
Por la gracia de Luis
2009 · Movie
Calle Bardem
2005 · Movie
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005 · Movie
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
2004 · Movie
El sueño de la maestra
2002 · Movie
La ley del cholo II
2000 · Movie
París-Tombuctú
1999 · Movie
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
1998 · Movie
Blasco Ibáñez
1997 · Series
Villarriba y Villabajo
1994 · Series
Everyone Off to Jail
1993 · Movie
Moors and Christians
1987 · Movie
A la pálida luz de la luna
1985 · Movie
The Heifer
1985 · Movie
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
1984 · Movie
National III
1982 · Movie
National Heritage
1981 · Movie
A Tied Blasé
1981 · Movie
Erotic Stories
1980 · Movie
The National Shotgun
1978 · Movie
Ciné regards
1978 · Series
Una noche embarazosa
1977 · Movie
Paper Tigers
1977 · Movie
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1974 · Movie
Life Size
1974 · Movie
Long Live the Bride and Groom
1970 · Movie
Sharon in Scarlet
1969 · Movie
Tuset Street
1968 · Movie
Días de viejo color
1968 · Movie
No somos de piedra
1968 · Movie
Las pirañas
1967 · Movie
October in Madrid
1965 · Movie
Strange Voyage
1964 · Movie
The Executioner
1963 · Movie
Death and the Lumberjack
1963 · Movie
The Four Truths
1962 · Movie
Placido
1962 · Movie
Streetcar for Sale
1959 · Movie
We Are 18 Years Old
1959 · Movie
Familia provisional
1958 · Movie
Miracles of Thursday
1957 · Movie
The Rocket from Calabuch
1956 · Movie
Boyfriend in Sight
1954 · Movie
That Happy Couple
1953 · Movie
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1953 · Movie
El circo
1950 · Movie
Paseo por una guerra antigua
1949 · Movie