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Luis García Berlanga
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.
As director
El sueño de la maestra
París-Tombuctú
Everyone Off to Jail
Moors and Christians
The Heifer
National III
National Heritage
The National Shotgun
Life Size
Long Live the Bride and Groom
Las pirañas
The Executioner
Death and the Lumberjack
Placido
The Four Truths
Miracles of Thursday
The Rocket from Calabuch
Boyfriend in Sight
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
That Happy Couple
El circo
Paseo por una guerra antigua
As actor
Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
El joven Berlanga
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
Enrique Herreros
Por la gracia de Luis
Calle Bardem
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
La ley del cholo II
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
A la pálida luz de la luna
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
A Tied Blasé
Erotic Stories
Paper Tigers
Sharon in Scarlet
Tuset Street
Días de viejo color
No somos de piedra
Las pirañas
October in Madrid
Streetcar for Sale