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Luis García Berlanga
Valencia, España
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 o…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2025
Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
Movie Self (Archive footage)
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2022
El joven Berlanga
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2012
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
Movie Interviewee
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2011
Enrique Herreros
Movie Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
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2009
Por la gracia de Luis
Movie Himself
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2005
Calle Bardem
Movie Interviewee
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2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Movie Self
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2004
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
Movie Himself
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2002
El sueño de la maestra
Movie Director
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2000
La ley del cholo II
Movie
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1999
París-Tombuctú
Movie Director
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1998
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
Movie Luis Berlanga
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1997
Blasco Ibáñez
TV show Director
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1994
Villarriba y Villabajo
TV show Director
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1993
Everyone Off to Jail
Movie Director
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1987
Moors and Christians
Movie Director
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1985
A la pálida luz de la luna
Movie Himself
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1985
The Heifer
Movie Director
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1984
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
Movie Peris
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1982
National III
Movie Director
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1981
National Heritage
Movie Director
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1981
A Tied Blasé
Movie
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1980
Erotic Stories
Movie Hombre del metro
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1978
The National Shotgun
Movie Director
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1978
Ciné regards
TV show Self
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1977
Una noche embarazosa
Movie Writer
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1977
Paper Tigers
Movie
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1974
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Movie Novel
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1974
Life Size
Movie Director
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1970
Long Live the Bride and Groom
Movie Director
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1969
Sharon in Scarlet
Movie Víctor
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1968
Tuset Street
Movie Aparicio
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1968
Días de viejo color
Movie Mr. Marshall
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1968
No somos de piedra
Movie
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1967
Las pirañas
Movie Film Buff
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1965
October in Madrid
Movie
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1964
Strange Voyage
Movie Idea
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1963
The Executioner
Movie Director
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1963
Death and the Lumberjack
Movie Director
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1962
The Four Truths
Movie Director
