Cast & creator
Luis García Berlanga
Best known for Ciné regards, Villarriba y Villabajo, Villarriba y Villabajo
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.
Also known as: Luis G. Berlanga, Luis Gª Berlanga, Luis García-Berlanga Martí, Berlanga, Луис Гарсия Берланга
73
film credits
5
television credits
23
1949–2025 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (78)
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Ciné regards
Self
1978
Villarriba y Villabajo
Director
1994Villarriba y Villabajo
Creator
1994
Blasco Ibáñez
Director
1997Blasco Ibáñez
Writer
1997
The Executioner
Screenplay
1963The Executioner
Director
1963
A la pálida luz de la luna
Himself
1985
Por la gracia de Luis
Himself
2009
Everyone Off to Jail
Director
1993Everyone Off to Jail
Writer
1993Everyone Off to Jail
Story
1993
The Four Truths
Director
1962
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self
2005
París-Tombuctú
Director
1999París-Tombuctú
Writer
1999
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday
Novel
1974
The Rocket from Calabuch
Director
1956The Rocket from Calabuch
Screenplay
1956
We Are 18 Years Old
Associate Producer
1959Calle Bardem
Interviewee
2005
Strange Voyage
Idea
1964
Sharon in Scarlet
Víctor
1969
Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Screenplay
1953Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Director
1953
Life Size
Director
1974Life Size
Writer
1974
El sueño de la maestra
Director
2002El sueño de la maestra
Writer
2002
Tuset Street
Aparicio
1968
No somos de piedra
1968
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando
Luis Berlanga
1998
Días de viejo color
Mr. Marshall
1968
El joven Berlanga
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2022
The Heifer
Director
1985The Heifer
Screenplay
1985The Heifer
Story
1985
Streetcar for Sale
Comprador de la baliza aerostática (uncredited)
1959Streetcar for Sale
Writer
1959
Placido
Director
1962Placido
Screenstory
1962Placido
Screenplay
1962
National Heritage
Director
1981National Heritage
Writer
1981
From Kuleshov to Berlanga
Himself
2004
El circo
Director
1950
Death and the Lumberjack
Director
1963
Boyfriend in Sight
Screenplay
1954Boyfriend in Sight
Director
1954
The National Shotgun
Director
1978The National Shotgun
Screenplay
1978
October in Madrid
1965The Invisible Half: Luis García Berlanga's The Executioner
Interviewee
2012
A Tied Blasé
1981
Una noche embarazosa
Writer
1977
De mica en mica s’omple la pica
Peris
1984
La ley del cholo II
2000
That Happy Couple
Director
1953That Happy Couple
Screenplay
1953
Moors and Christians
Screenplay
1987Moors and Christians
Director
1987
Paper Tigers
1977
Long Live the Bride and Groom
Director
1970Long Live the Bride and Groom
Writer
1970
Paseo por una guerra antigua
Screenplay
1949Paseo por una guerra antigua
Director
1949
Miracles of Thursday
Director
1957Miracles of Thursday
Screenplay
1957Miracles of Thursday
Screenstory
1957
National III
Director
1982National III
Writer
1982
Erotic Stories
Hombre del metro
1980
Enrique Herreros
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2011
Las pirañas
Film Buff
1967Las pirañas
Director
1967Las pirañas
Screenplay
1967
Familia provisional
Writer
1958
Berlanga, fanáticamente contradictorio
Self (Archive footage)
2025