Luis García Berlanga
Directing
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
Directing24
movieEl sueño de la maestra
2002
Director
movieParís-Tombuctú
1999
Director
tvBlasco Ibáñez
1997
Director
tvVillarriba y Villabajo
1994
Director
movieEveryone Off to Jail
1993
Director
movieMoors and Christians
1987
Director
movieThe Heifer
1985
Director
movieNational III
1982
Director
movieNational Heritage
1981
Director
movieThe National Shotgun
1978
Director
movieLife Size
1974
Director
movieLas pirañas
1967
Director
movieThe Executioner
1963
Director
movieThe Four Truths
1962
Director
moviePlacido
1962
Director
movieMiracles of Thursday
1957
Director
movieBoyfriend in Sight
1954
Director
movieThat Happy Couple
1953
Director
movieWelcome Mr. Marshall!
1953
Director
movieEl circo
1950
Director
Writing25
movieParís-Tombuctú
1999
Writer
tvBlasco Ibáñez
1997
Writer
movieEveryone Off to Jail
1993
Writer, Story
movieMoors and Christians
1987
Screenplay
movieThe Heifer
1985
Screenplay, Story
movieNational III
1982
Writer
movieThe National Shotgun
1978
Screenplay
movieLife Size
1974
Writer
movieLas pirañas
1967
Screenplay
movieThe Executioner
1963
Screenplay
moviePlacido
1962
Screenstory, Screenplay
movieMiracles of Thursday
1957
Screenplay, Screenstory
movieThe Rocket from Calabuch
1956
Screenplay
movieBoyfriend in Sight
1954
Screenplay
movieThat Happy Couple
1953
Screenplay
movieWelcome Mr. Marshall!
1953
Screenplay
moviePaseo por una guerra antigua
1949
Screenplay
Acting23
movieBerlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
2025
Self (Archive footage)
movieEl joven Berlanga
2022
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
movieEnrique Herreros
2011
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Calle Bardem
2005
Interviewee
movieCuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
1998
Luis Berlanga
movieErotic Stories
1980
Hombre del metro
movieTuset Street
1968
Aparicio
movieDías de viejo color
1968
Mr. Marshall
movieLas pirañas
1967
Film Buff
movieStreetcar for Sale
1959
Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)
Creator1
tvVillarriba y Villabajo
1994
Creator
Production1
movieWe Are 18 Years Old
1959
Associate Producer