A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Berlanga
Luis G. Berlanga
Luis García-Berlanga Martí
Luis Gª Berlanga
Луис Гарсия Берланга
Birthplace:
Valencia, España
Born:
July 12, 1921
Died:
November 13, 2010
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.
Associate Producer:
1959 We Are 18 Years Old
Director:
1949 Paseo por una guerra antigua
1950 El circo
1953 That Happy Couple
1953 Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1954 Boyfriend in Sight
1956 The Rocket from Calabuch
1957 Miracles of Thursday
1959 We Are 18 Years Old
1962 Placido
1962 The Four Truths
1963 Death and the Lumberjack
1963 The Executioner
1967 Las pirañas
1970 Long Live the Bride and Groom
1974 Life Size
1978 The National Shotgun
1981 National Heritage
1982 National III
1985 The Heifer
1987 Moors and Christians
1993 Everyone Off to Jail
1999 París-Tombuctú
2002 El sueño de la maestra
Idea:
1949 Paseo por una guerra antigua
1950 El circo
1953 That Happy Couple
1953 Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1954 Boyfriend in Sight
1956 The Rocket from Calabuch
1957 Miracles of Thursday
1959 We Are 18 Years Old
1962 Placido
1962 The Four Truths
1963 Death and the Lumberjack
1963 The Executioner
1964 Strange Voyage
1967 Las pirañas
1970 Long Live the Bride and Groom
1974 Life Size
1978 The National Shotgun
1981 National Heritage
1982 National III
1985 The Heifer
1987 Moors and Christians
1993 Everyone Off to Jail
1999 París-Tombuctú
2002 El sueño de la maestra
Novel:
1949 Paseo por una guerra antigua
1950 El circo
1953 That Happy Couple
1953 Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1954 Boyfriend in Sight
1956 The Rocket from Calabuch
1957 Miracles of Thursday
1959 We Are 18 Years Old
1962 Placido
1962 The Four Truths
1963 Death and the Lumberjack
1963 The Executioner
1964 Strange Voyage
1967 Las pirañas
1970 Long Live the Bride and Groom
1974 Life Size
1974 To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1978 The National Shotgun
1981 National Heritage
1982 National III
1985 The Heifer
1987 Moors and Christians
1993 Everyone Off to Jail
1999 París-Tombuctú
2002 El sueño de la maestra
Screenplay:
1949 Paseo por una guerra antigua
1950 El circo
1953 That Happy Couple
1953 Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1954 Boyfriend in Sight
1956 The Rocket from Calabuch
1957 Miracles of Thursday
1959 We Are 18 Years Old
1962 Placido
1962 The Four Truths
1963 Death and the Lumberjack
1963 The Executioner
1964 Strange Voyage
1967 Las pirañas
1970 Long Live the Bride and Groom
1974 Life Size
1974 To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1978 The National Shotgun
1981 National Heritage
1982 National III
1985 The Heifer
1987 Moors and Christians
1993 Everyone Off to Jail
1999 París-Tombuctú
2002 El sueño de la maestra
Screenstory:
1949 Paseo por una guerra antigua
1950 El circo
1953 That Happy Couple
1953 Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1954 Boyfriend in Sight
1956 The Rocket from Calabuch
1957 Miracles of Thursday
1959 We Are 18 Years Old
1962 Placido
1962 The Four Truths
1963 Death and the Lumberjack
1963 The Executioner
1964 Strange Voyage
1967 Las pirañas
1970 Long Live the Bride and Groom
1974 Life Size
1974 To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1978 The National Shotgun
1981 National Heritage
1982 National III
1985 The Heifer
1987 Moors and Christians
1993 Everyone Off to Jail
1999 París-Tombuctú
2002 El sueño de la maestra
Story:
1949 Paseo por una guerra antigua
1950 El circo
1953 That Happy Couple
1953 Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1954 Boyfriend in Sight
1956 The Rocket from Calabuch
1957 Miracles of Thursday
1959 We Are 18 Years Old
1962 Placido
1962 The Four Truths
1963 Death and the Lumberjack
1963 The Executioner
1964 Strange Voyage
1967 Las pirañas
1970 Long Live the Bride and Groom
1974 Life Size
1974 To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1978 The National Shotgun
1981 National Heritage
1982 National III
1985 The Heifer
1987 Moors and Christians
1993 Everyone Off to Jail
1999 París-Tombuctú
2002 El sueño de la maestra
Writer:
1949 Paseo por una guerra antigua
1950 El circo
1953 That Happy Couple
1953 Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1954 Boyfriend in Sight
1956 The Rocket from Calabuch
1957 Miracles of Thursday
1958 Familia provisional
1959 Streetcar for Sale
1959 We Are 18 Years Old
1962 Placido
1962 The Four Truths
1963 Death and the Lumberjack
1963 The Executioner
1964 Strange Voyage
1967 Las pirañas
1970 Long Live the Bride and Groom
1974 Life Size
1974 To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
1977 Una noche embarazosa
1978 The National Shotgun
1981 National Heritage
1982 National III
1985 The Heifer
1987 Moors and Christians
1993 Everyone Off to Jail
1999 París-Tombuctú
2002 El sueño de la maestra
Creator:
1994 Villarriba y Villabajo
Director:
1994 Villarriba y Villabajo
1997 Blasco Ibáñez
Writer:
1994 Villarriba y Villabajo
1997 Blasco Ibáñez
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