LUIS GARCÍA BERLANGA

Luis García Berlanga
Luis García Berlanga
Gender: Male
Known for: Directing
Birthday: July 12, 1921
Deathday: November 13, 2010
Place of Birth: Valencia, España

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.

Notable work

Filmography

Starring

Self (Archive footage)
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Interviewee
Hombre del metro
Mr. Marshall
Aparicio
Film Buff
Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)

Production

Writer, Director
Writer, Director
Writer, Director
Creator, Director
Story, Writer, Director
Director, Screenplay
Story, Screenplay, Director
Writer, Director
Writer, Director
Screenplay, Director
1974·
Life Size
Writer, Director
Writer, Director
Screenplay, Director
Idea
Director, Screenplay
1962·
Placido
Screenplay, Screenstory, Director
Director
Writer
Associate Producer
Screenstory, Screenplay, Director
Screenplay, Director
Director, Screenplay
Screenplay, Director
Director, Screenplay
1950·
El circo
Director
Director, Screenplay