Luis García Berlanga

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1921-07-12

Deathday 2010-11-13 (89 years old)

Place of Birth Valencia, España

Also Known As Luis G. Berlanga, Luis Gª Berlanga, Luis García-Berlanga Martí, Berlanga, Луис Гарсия Берланга

Luis García Berlanga

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.

Known For

Director

2002
1999
París-Tombuctú

as Director

1997
Blasco Ibáñez

as Director

1994
1993
1987
1985
The Heifer

as Director

1982
National III

as Director

1981
National Heritage

as Director

1978
1974
Life Size

as Director

1967
Las pirañas

as Director

1963
The Executioner

as Director

1963
1962
Placido

as Director

1962
The Four Truths

as Director

1957
1956
1954
Boyfriend in Sight

as Director

1953
1953
That Happy Couple

as Director

1950
El circo

as Director

Writer

1999
1997
Blasco Ibáñez

as Writer

1993
1987
Moors and Christians

as Screenplay

1985
The Heifer

as Screenplay

1985
The Heifer

as Story

1982
National III

as Writer

1981
1978
The National Shotgun

as Screenplay

1977
1974
Life Size

as Writer

1967
Las pirañas

as Screenplay

1964
1963
The Executioner

as Screenplay

1962
Placido

as Screenstory

1962
Placido

as Screenplay

1959
1958
1957
Miracles of Thursday

as Screenplay

1957
Miracles of Thursday

as Screenstory

1956
1954
Boyfriend in Sight

as Screenplay

1953
Welcome Mr. Marshall!

as Screenplay

1953
That Happy Couple

as Screenplay

Actor

2022
El joven Berlanga

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2011
Enrique Herreros

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2009
2005
Calle Bardem

as Interviewee

1980
Erotic Stories

as Hombre del metro

1969
1968
Tuset Street

as Aparicio

1968
Días de viejo color

as Mr. Marshall

1967
Las pirañas

as Film Buff

1959
Streetcar for Sale

as Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)

Producer

1959
We Are 18 Years Old

as Associate Producer

Creator

1994