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Luis García Berlanga

Highest Rated: 100% Plácido (1961)

Lowest Rated: 100% Plácido (1961)

Birthday: Jun 12, 1921

Birthplace: Valencia, Spain

Along with Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis Garcia Berlanga emerged as the only significant figure in domestic Spanish film production of the 1950s. He first achieved international acclaim as the director of "Welcome Mr. Marshall" (1952), a comedy about the reaction of a small Spanish village to the Marshall Plan, which lifted Spanish cinema out of a fifteen-year doldrum. He earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film for 1961's "Placido," about an impoverished truck driver, and received the International Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival for "Not On Your Life" (1963), which dealt with a former undertaker's assistant who has second thoughts when he succeeds his father-in-law as the town's executioner. Berlanga's biggest commercial success came with "The National Shotgun" (1978), the first in a trilogy of films about the farcical effects of the post-Franco democracy on an aristocratic family. He also won attention with "Open Day in Jail/Todos a la Carcel" (1993), wherein an ambitious promoter proposes a tribute to political prisoners.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 96% Plácido
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The National Shotgun
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Nacional III
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Tuset Street
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59% The Heifer
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París Tombuctú (Paris-Timbuktu)
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The Rocket From Calabuch
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La Muerte y el Leñador
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That Happy Couple
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Miracles of Thursday
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Filmography

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Corazón de bombón 2001 Self París Tombuctú (Paris-Timbuktu) 1999 Director Paris-Timbuktu 1999 Director, Writer Everyone Off to Jail 1993 Director, Screenwriter Barrios altos 1987 Director The Heifer 59% 1985 Director Nacional III 1982 Director, Writer Patrimonio nacional 1981 Director The National Shotgun 1978 Director, Writer Life Size 60% 1974 Director, Screenwriter Long Live the Bride and Groom 1969 Director, Screenwriter Tuset Street 1967 Aparicio Actor La boutique 1967 Director, Writer The Executioner 89% 1963 Director La Muerte y el Leñador 1962 Director, Screenwriter Plácido 100% 96% 1961 Director Se vende un tranvía 1959 Writer Miracles of Thursday 1957 Director, Writer Rocket From Calabuch 83% 1956 Director The Rocket From Calabuch 1956 Director, Screenwriter Novio a la vista 1954 Director Welcome Mr. Marshall 94% 1953 Director That Happy Couple 1953 Director, Screenwriter El circo 1949 Director, Writer
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