One hundred years of Berlanga

Luis García Berlanga would turn 100 this June 12.

But the 89 that he lived gave him enough for a lot.

For example, to sign a good handful of masterpieces.

Films like

Welcome, Mister Marshall !, Plácido, The Executioner

or

The National Shotgun

portrayed this country with the necessary doses of humor, acid vision and tenderness and without the expendable doses of political correctness and a ready-made message.

To celebrate its centenary, we tour Berlangua's Spain, we visit the locations where it filmed and we talk with the people it frequented.

We also dusted off the scripts that the censorship banned him and we chatted with the Spanish filmmakers who defend his mark.

And we enter the

Berlanga treasure,

an extraordinary legacy that rests in the Spanish Film Library.

A trip through the Spain of Berlanga

Berlanguian geography through 10 films by the Valencian creator.

The 'Berlanga treasure'

We open the boxes that keep objects and documents never seen before in the Spanish Film Library.

Berlanga File

The reports that show how Franco's censors banned the filming of three films.

"Berlanga is Spain"

Santiago Segura, Javier Fesser and other filmmakers talk about the director's legacy.

• Credits

• Coordination: Brenda Valverde and Guiomar del Ser

• Art direction: Fernando Hernández

• Design: Ana Fernández

• Layout: Nelly Natalí

• Video: Saúl Ruiz and Eduardo Nave

• Graphic edition: Gorka Lejarcegui