Image of Luis García Berlanga

Luis García Berlanga

1921-07-12 Valencia, España

Image of Luis García Berlanga

Biografia

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.

Películas

La primera mirada. Historia de una escuela de cine 2023-10-23
El joven Berlanga Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2022-10-26
La mitad invisible: El Verdugo de Luis García Berlanga Interviewee 2012-02-25
Enrique Herreros Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) 2011-06-10
Por la gracia de Luis Himself 2009-10-17
Cineastes contra magnats Self 2005-07-17
Calle Bardem Interviewee 2005-09-17
De Kuleshov a Berlanga Himself 2004-05-25
La ley del cholo II 2000-01-01
A la pálida luz de la luna Himself 1985-10-09
De mica en mica s'omple la pica Peris 1984-06-28
Un pasota con corbata 1981-02-03
Cuentos eróticos Hombre del metro 1980-03-13
Sharon vestida de rojo Víctor 1969-06-30
Días de viejo color Mr. Marshall 1968-08-23
No somos de piedra Guardia urbano 1968-04-29
Tuset Street Aparicio 1968-09-16
Las pirañas Film Buff 1967-10-18
Octobre à Madrid 1967-01-16
Se vende un tranvía Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited) 1959-10-11