Luis García Berlanga
Known For
Directing
Born
1921-07-12 in Valencia, España
Died
2010-11-13
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.
Most Known For
Tuset Street
as Aparicio
A la pálida luz de la luna
as Himself
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
Erotic Stories
as Hombre del metro
Días de viejo color
as Mr. Marshall
October in Madrid
Calle Bardem
as Interviewee
Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
as Self (Archive footage)
Streetcar for Sale
as Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)
Las pirañas
as Film Buff
No somos de piedra
Sharon in Scarlet
as Víctor
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
as Luis Berlanga
Enrique Herreros
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
as Peris
La ley del cholo II
El joven Berlanga
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
A Tied Blasé
Por la gracia de Luis
as Himself
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
as Himself