Few filmmakers have captured Spanish society as accurately as Luis García Berlanga did. And even fewer have done it with such great writing and filmmaking skills. Celebrating Luis García Berlanga is to celebrate Spanish culture from the last century in the broadest sense and his capacity to intermingle his work with other cultural and cinematic forms that were more or less closely related. This sample of films offers a journey through his filmmaking, from his beginnings as a student and his first feature film (together with Juan Antonio Bardem), to his last stage in the final part of the 20th century. Five decades of cinema, in which he went from being persecuted by censorship due to the questions his films prompted, to become, in the transition years, a flagship for the way the times were changing.
