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Luis García Berlanga

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Spanish film director and screenwriter (1921-2010)

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Luis García-Berlanga Martí was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Acclaimed as a pioneer of modern Spanish cinema, his films are marked by social satire and acerbic critiques of Spanish culture under the Francoist dictatorship. These include Welcome Mr. Marshall!

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Filmography 40

The Executioner1963 · ★ 7.6
Welcome Mr. Marshall!1953 · ★ 7.4
Placido1962 · ★ 7.7
The Heifer1985 · ★ 6.7
The National Shotgun1978 · ★ 6.8
The Rocket from Calabuch1956
Miracles of Thursday1957
That Happy Couple1953
Everyone Off to Jail1993
Life Size1974
National Heritage1981
To My Dear Mother on Her Birthday1974
Moors and Christians1987
París-Tombuctú1999
Boyfriend in Sight1954
The Four Truths1962
Long Live the Bride and Groom1970
National III1982
Las pirañas1967
Erotic Stories1980
Días de viejo color1968
October in Madrid1965
Una noche embarazosa1977
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons2005
El sueño de la maestra2002
A la pálida luz de la luna1985
La ley del cholo II2000
Cuando el mundo se acabe te seguiré amando1998
El circo1950
Familia provisional1958
De mica en mica s’omple la pica1984
Streetcar for Sale1959
El joven Berlanga2022
Tuset Street1968
Enrique Herreros2011
No somos de piedra1968
Death and the Lumberjack1963
Paseo por una guerra antigua1949
From Kuleshov to Berlanga2004
A Tied Blasé1981

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Television 2

Blasco Ibáñez1997
Villarriba y Villabajo1994

Awards 4

1994Goya Award for Best Director
1989honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
1986Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts
1982Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts

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Luis García-Berlanga Martí was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Acclaimed as a pioneer of modern Spanish cinema, his films are marked by social satire and acerbic critiques of Spanish culture under the Francoist dictatorship. These include Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953), which won the International Prize at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, Plácido (1961), nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1962, and The Executioner (1963), winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 24th Venice International Film Festival He kept a long-time collaboration with screenwriter Rafael Azcona, with whom he co-wrote the scripts for seven of his films between 1961 and 1987.

Country
Spain
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1921 to 2010 · aged 89
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27 languages

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