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.
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.
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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q381234
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Filmography (Movies)
Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
Character:Self (Archive footage)
Release Date:15/03/2025
El joven Berlanga
Character:Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Release Date:26/10/2022
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
Character:Interviewee
Release Date:25/02/2012
Enrique Herreros
Character:Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Release Date:10/06/2011
Por la gracia de Luis
Character:Himself
Release Date:17/10/2009
Calle Bardem
Character:Interviewee
Release Date:17/09/2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Character:Self
Release Date:17/07/2005
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
Character:Himself
Release Date:25/05/2004
La ley del cholo II
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2000
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
Character:Luis Berlanga
Release Date:13/11/1998
A la pálida luz de la luna
Character:Himself
Release Date:09/10/1985
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
Character:Peris
Release Date:28/06/1984
A Tied Blasé
Character:
Release Date:03/02/1981
Erotic Stories
Character:Hombre del metro
Release Date:13/03/1980
Sharon vestida de rojo
Character:Víctor
Release Date:30/06/1969
Tuset Street
Character:Aparicio
Release Date:16/09/1968
Días de viejo color
Character:Mr. Marshall
Release Date:23/08/1968
No somos de piedra
Character:
Release Date:29/04/1968
Las pirañas
Character:Film Buff
Release Date:18/10/1967
October in Madrid
Character:
Release Date:16/01/1965
Streetcar for Sale
Character:Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)
Release Date:11/10/1959
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