Luis García Berlanga
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.
La ley del cholo II
El joven Berlanga
(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))
The First Look
Erotic Stories
(Hombre del metro)
A Tied Blasé
Calle Bardem
(Interviewee)
Streetcar for Sale
(Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited))
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
(Himself)
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
(Interviewee)
A la pálida luz de la luna
(Himself)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
(Self)
Las pirañas
(Film Buff)
Por la gracia de Luis
(Himself)
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
(Peris)
Enrique Herreros
(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))
October in Madrid
Tuset Street
(Aparicio)
Sharon vestida de rojo
(Víctor)
Días de viejo color
(Mr. Marshall)
No somos de piedra
The Executioner
(Director)
The Executioner
(Screenplay)
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
(Director)
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
(Screenplay)
París-Tombuctú
(Director)
The Heifer
(Director)
Placido
(Director)
Boyfriend in Sight
(Director)
Boyfriend in Sight
(Screenplay)
Paseo por una guerra antigua
(Director)
Paseo por una guerra antigua
(Screenplay)
Miracles of Thursday
(Director)
Miracles of Thursday
(Screenplay)
National Heritage
(Director)
National III
(Director)
Everyone Off to Jail
(Director)
Life Size
(Director)
El sueño de la maestra
(Director)
The Rocket from Calabuch
(Director)
That Happy Couple
(Director)
Long Live the Bride and Groom
(Director)
The National Shotgun
(Director)
The National Shotgun
(Screenplay)
Moors and Christians
(Director)
Moors and Christians
(Screenplay)
The Four Truths
(Director)
Una noche embarazosa
(Writer)
Las pirañas
(Director)
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
(Novel)
Strange Voyage
(Idea)
Miracles of Thursday
(Screenstory)
We Are 18 Years Old
(Associate Producer)
Placido
(Screenstory)
Death and the Lumberjack
(Director)
París-Tombuctú
(Writer)
The Heifer
(Screenplay)
The Heifer
(Story)
El circo
(Director)
Everyone Off to Jail
(Story)
Everyone Off to Jail
(Writer)
That Happy Couple
(Screenplay)
Streetcar for Sale
(Writer)
National Heritage
(Writer)
National III
(Writer)
Las pirañas
(Screenplay)
El sueño de la maestra
(Writer)
Life Size
(Writer)
The Rocket from Calabuch
(Screenplay)
Long Live the Bride and Groom
(Writer)
Placido
(Screenplay)
Familia provisional
(Writer)
Blasco Ibáñez
(Director)
Villarriba y Villabajo
(Director)
Blasco Ibáñez
(Writer)
Villarriba y Villabajo
(Creator)