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Luis García Berlanga

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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.

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Uno de los cineastas más conocidos a nivel mundial y realizador de algunas de las películas más famosas del cine español, tiernas en su visión de los personajes; pero satíricas hasta lo mordaz en su análisis social, manifiestamente crítico pese a la censura del franquismo. Nació en 1921 en el seno de una familia acomodada valenciana. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, estudió en la Escuela Oficial de Cine (IIEC/EOC), de la que luego sería profesor. Allí conoció a Juan Antonio Bardem, y juntos acometieron su primera película. Su habilidad narrativa, junto con la agudeza de su sátira, rayana en el disparate, hicieron de él un cineasta popular, pero también valorado por la crítica. No obstante, dentro de su línea cómica oscila entre la ternura y el esperpento de sus comedias corales. Entre ambos extremos, transcurren las primeras películas, escritas en colaboración con Rafael Azcona, en las que desarrolla un humor negro, característico de ambos, corrosivas denuncias de la hipocresía social y de la pena de muerte. En los últimos años fue presidente de la Filmoteca Nacional de España y director de una colección de novelas y relatos eróticos.

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