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.
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (47)
Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
as Self (Archive footage)
2025
El joven Berlanga
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2022
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
as Interviewee
2012
Enrique Herreros
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2011
Por la gracia de Luis
as Himself
2009
Calle Bardem
as Interviewee
2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
2005
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
as Himself
2004
El sueño de la maestra
Director (Directing)
2002
La ley del cholo II
2000
París-Tombuctú
Director (Directing)
1999
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
as Luis Berlanga
1998
Everyone Off to Jail
Director (Directing)
1993
Moors and Christians
Director (Directing)
1987
A la pálida luz de la luna
as Himself
1985
The Heifer
Director (Directing)
1985
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
as Peris
1984
National III
Director (Directing)
1982
National Heritage
Director (Directing)
1981
A Tied Blasé
1981
Erotic Stories
as Hombre del metro
1980
The National Shotgun
Director (Directing)
1978
Una noche embarazosa
Writer (Writing)
1977
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Novel (Writing)
1974
Life Size
Director (Directing)
1974
Long Live the Bride and Groom
Director (Directing)
1970
Sharon vestida de rojo
as Víctor
1969
Tuset Street
as Aparicio
1968
Días de viejo color
as Mr. Marshall
1968
No somos de piedra
1968
Las pirañas
as Film Buff
1967
October in Madrid
1965
Strange Voyage
Idea (Writing)
1964
The Executioner
Director (Directing)
1963
Death and the Lumberjack
Director (Directing)
1963
The Four Truths
Director (Directing)
1962
Placido
Director (Directing)
1962
Streetcar for Sale
as Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)
1959
We Are 18 Years Old
Associate Producer (Production)
1959
Familia provisional
Writer (Writing)
1958
Miracles of Thursday
Director (Directing)
1957
The Rocket from Calabuch
Director (Directing)
1956
Boyfriend in Sight
Director (Directing)
1954
That Happy Couple
Director (Directing)
1953
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Director (Directing)
1953
El circo
Director (Directing)
1950
Paseo por una guerra antigua
Director (Directing)
1949
