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Born July 12, 1921 · Valencia, España
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.

El sueño de la maestra
2002

París-Tombuctú
1999

Everyone Off to Jail
1993

Moors and Christians
1987

The Heifer
1985

National III
1982

National Heritage
1981

The National Shotgun
1978

Life Size
1974

Long Live the Bride and Groom
1970

Las pirañas
1967

The Executioner
1963

Death and the Lumberjack
1963

The Four Truths
1962

Placido
1962

Miracles of Thursday
1957

The Rocket from Calabuch
1956

Boyfriend in Sight
1954

That Happy Couple
1953

Welcome Mr. Marshall!
1953

El circo
1950

Paseo por una guerra antigua
1949

Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
2025

El joven Berlanga
2022
The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
2012

Enrique Herreros
2011

Por la gracia de Luis
2009
Calle Bardem
2005

Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005

From Kuleshov to Berlanga
2004

La ley del cholo II
2000

Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
1998

A la pálida luz de la luna
1985

De mica en mica s’omple la pica
1984

A Tied Blasé
1981

Erotic Stories
1980

Sharon in Scarlet
1969

Tuset Street
1968

Días de viejo color
1968

No somos de piedra
1968

Las pirañas
1967

October in Madrid
1965

Streetcar for Sale
1959