Luis García Berlanga
Director, Writer, Actor, Producer
July 12, 1921 — November 13, 2010 (89 years)
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.
Known For
Filmography
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| 1999 | |
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| 1967 | |
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| 2002 | |
| 1999 | |
| 1997 | |
| 1987 | Moors and Christians · as Screenplay |
| 1985 | The Heifer · as Screenplay |
| 1982 | |
| 1981 | |
| 1978 | La escopeta nacional · as Screenplay |
| 1977 | |
| 1974 | |
| 1974 | |
| 1970 | |
| 1967 | Las pirañas · as Screenplay |
| 1963 | The Executioner · as Screenplay |
| 1959 | |
| 1957 | Miracles of Thursday · as Screenplay |
| 1956 | The Rocket from Calabuch · as Screenplay |
| 1954 | Boyfriend in Sight · as Screenplay |
| 1953 | Welcome Mr. Marshall! · as Screenplay |
| 1951 | That Happy Couple · as Screenplay |
| 2001 | Corazón de bombón · as Berlanga |
| 2000 | |
| 1998 | Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando · as Luis Berlanga |
| 1982 | |
| 1981 | Trágala, perro · as Cast |
| 1980 | Erotic Stories · as Hombre Del Metro |
| 1977 | Tigres de papel · as Matón Ultraderechista |
| 1968 | Tuset Street · as Aparicio |
| 1968 | Días de viejo color · as Mr. Marshall |
| 1968 | |
| 1967 | Las pirañas · as Film Buff |
| 1967 | |
| 1959 | Se vende un tranvía · as Comprador De La Baliza Aerostática (uncredited) |
| 2022 | José Luis López Vázquez. ¡Qué disparate! · as Self |
| 2010 | Sodankylä Forever · as Self |
| 2009 | Por la gracia de Luis · as Himself |
| 2006 | XX premios Goya · as Self |
| 2005 | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons · as Self |
| 2000 | Aliens to Themselves · as Self |
| 1988 | Juego de niños · as Self - Contestant |
| 1985 | A la pálida luz de la luna · as Himself |
| 1984 | La Noche del Cine Español · as Self |
| 1976 | A Fondo · as Self |
| 1959 | We Are 18 Years Old · as Associate Producer |
| 1994 | Villarriba y Villabajo · as Creator |
| 1993 | Todos a la cárcel · as Story |
| 1964 | Strange Voyage · as Idea |
| 1963 | La muerte y el leñador · as Story & Dialogue |
| 1961 | Placido · as Screenstory |
| 1954 | Beauty and the Bullfighter · as Adaptation |