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.
Acting
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Las pirañas
as Film Buff
1967
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Erotic Stories
as Hombre del metro
1980
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October in Madrid
1965
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Días de viejo color
as Mr. Marshall
1968
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
2005
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A la pálida luz de la luna
as Himself
1985
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La ley del cholo II
2000
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De mica en mica s’omple la pica
as Peris
1984
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Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
as Luis Berlanga
1998
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El joven Berlanga
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2022
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Streetcar for Sale
as Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)
1959
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From Kuleshov to Berlanga
as Himself
2004
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Enrique Herreros
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2011
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Tuset Street
as Aparicio
1968
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No somos de piedra
1968
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A Tied Blasé
1981
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Calle Bardem
as Interviewee
2005
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Por la gracia de Luis
as Himself
2009
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Sharon in Scarlet
as Víctor
1969
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Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
as Self (Archive footage)
2025
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The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
as Interviewee
2012
Crew
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The Executioner
Director
1963
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Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Director
1953
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Placido
Director
1962
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The National Shotgun
Screenplay
1978
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The Heifer
Director
1985
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Strange Voyage
Idea
1964
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The Rocket from Calabuch
Director
1956
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Miracles of Thursday
Director
1957
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Everyone Off to Jail
Director
1993
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That Happy Couple
Director
1953
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National Heritage
Director
1981
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Life Size
Director
1974