Luis García Berlanga

Luis García Berlanga

1921-07-12

Biography

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.

Also appears in

The First Look

The First Look

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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

6.2

Días de viejo color

Días de viejo color

4.5

Streetcar for Sale

Streetcar for Sale

7.0

No somos de piedra

No somos de piedra

7.0

Las pirañas

Las pirañas

5.7

A la pálida luz de la luna

A la pálida luz de la luna

3.3

La ley del cholo II

La ley del cholo II

3.0

The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga’s The Executioner

The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga’s The Executioner

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El joven Berlanga

El joven Berlanga

6.5

Enrique Herreros

Enrique Herreros

6.5

Tuset Street

Tuset Street

1.0

Por la gracia de Luis

Por la gracia de Luis

5.0

Erotic Stories

Erotic Stories

3.7

Sharon vestida de rojo

Sharon vestida de rojo

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A Tied Blasé

A Tied Blasé

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De mica en mica s’omple la pica

De mica en mica s’omple la pica

2.0

October in Madrid

October in Madrid

5.9

From Kuleshov to Berlanga

From Kuleshov to Berlanga

5.0

Calle Bardem

Calle Bardem

6.0