Director

Luis García Berlanga

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Directed movies: 22Directed series: 2All crew credits: 30

TMDB ID: 37493

IMDb ID: nm0305557

Known for: Directing

Born: July 12, 1921

Died: November 13, 2010

Age: 89

Place of birth: Valencia, España

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1949 - 2025

Years active: 77

Average TMDB rating: 6.84

Wikidata: Q381234

Also known as

Luis G. Berlanga • Luis Gª Berlanga • Luis García-Berlanga Martí • Berlanga • Луис Гарсия Берланга

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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.