Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010)
Spain | Film director and screenwriter
Luis García Berlanga
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Valencia in 1921, Luis García Berlanga participated in the last months of the Spanish Civil War with the Republican forces. He later enlisted in the Blue Division which was involved in the Eastern front. It was only after returning from Russia that he began his film studies. His first long featured movie, “Una pareja feliz”, was released in 1951. The following year “¡Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall!”, a grotesque satire on the Spanish society of the time, was released and received an award at the Cannes Film Festival
Two of his most famous films, “Plácido” and “El verdugo”, were produced in the 1960s, with screenplays by Rafael Azcona. He was named president of the Spanish National Film Institute in 1978. In 1981 he received the National Film Award and in 1986 the Príncipe de Asturias Prize for the Arts.
He died in Madrid in 2010.
FOUNDATION and INSTITUTIONAL WEBSITES
FILMOGRAPHY
Paseo por una guerra antigua (1949)
El circo (1950)
Esa pareja feliz (1951)
Bienvenido, Mister Marshall (1952)
Novio a la vista (1953)
Calabuch (1956)
Los jueves, milagro (1957)
Se vende un tranvía (1959)
Plácido (1961)
La muerte y el leñador (1962)
El verdugo (1963)
La boutique (1967)
Vivan los novios (1969)
Tamaño natural (1973)
La escopeta nacional (1977)
Patrimonio Nacional (1980)
Nacional III (1982)
La vaquilla (1984)
Moros y cristianos (1987)
Todos a la cárcel (1993)
Blasco Ibáñez, La novela de su vida (1996)
París-Tombuctú (1998)
El sueño de la maestra (2002)
SELECTED WORKS at IU BLOOMINGTON LIBRARIES
WORKS by LUIS GARCÍA BERLANGA
Azcona, Rafael, and Luis García Berlanga. El Verdugo. Madrid: Plot Ediciones. 2000.
FILMS by LUIS GARCÍA BERLANGA
Berlanga, Luis Garcia, director. ¡Bienvenito Mister Marshall! Spain: Tribanda Pictures. 2008. DVD.
CRITICISM and INTERPRETATION of LUIS GARCÍA BERLANGA'S WORK
El último austro-húngaro. Conversaciones con Berlanga (1981)
Berlanga. Vida y cine de un creador irreverente (2021)
Alvarez Valencia, Joan. La vida casi imaginaria de Berlanga. Barcelona: Editorial Prensa Ibérica, 1996.
Franco, Jesús. Bienvenido Mister Cagada: memorias caóticas de Luis García Berlanga. Buenos Aires: Aguilar, 2005.
Gómez Rufo, Antonio. Berlanga: contra el poder y la gloria. Barcelona: Ediciones B, 1997.
Hernández Les, Juan., Manuel Hidalgo, and Luis García Berlanga. El último austro-húngaro: Conversaciones con Berlanga. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1981.
Torres Begines, Concepción. España vista desde el aire: la influencia del esperpento de Valle-Inclán en el cine de García Berlanga. Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2014.
Villena, Miguel Ángel, Berlanga: Vida y cine de un creador irreverente. Barcelona: Tusquets Editores, 2021.
ORIGINAL WORKS and CRITICISM in OPEN ACCESS
ONLINE AUDIO and VISUAL RECORDINGS
ONLINE EXHIBITIONS and TRIBUTES
Luis García Berlanga - Instituto Cervantes
Berlanga (Centenario) - Documentary on the 100th birth anniversary of Luis Garcia Berlanga, RTVE, 2021.
Berlanga cumple cien años - Instituto Cervantes on Vimeo, June 2021. https://vimeo.com/showcase/centenarioberlanga
Berlanga 1921-2021 - Filmoteca Española on Vimeo, February 2021. https://vimeo.com/512806387
¡Viva Berlanga! Una historia de cine - Museu Valenciá de la Illustració i de la Modernitat, Valencia, March 4-September 19, 2021.
RELATED LINKS
El Gobierno instaura el Día del Cine Español el 6 de octubre - Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Gobierno de España, March 9, 2021.
El Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte y Filmoteca Española recuperan algunos documentos de Berlanga - Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Gobierno de España, November 12, 2020.