Filming of 'The Executioner', 1963.
On May 27, 2008, Luis Garcia Berlanga deposited something in Box 1,034 of the vault of the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid. He kept something and said that the box was not to be opened until the centenary of his birth was celebrated. And that day has arrived.
June 12, 1921 Luis Garcia Berlanga was born in Valencia. One day before the official centenary but to coincide with the inauguration of an extensive exhibition that celebrates all of his work and legacy, Box 1034 has been opened to discover its contents. And what was there? The unpublished script for Long live Russia! the fourth part of what was called the National Trilogy, formed by the national shotgun (1978), National Heritage (1981) and National III (1982). A libretto written by Berlanga himself, along with his son's Jorge (died 2011), rafael azcona Y Manuel Hidalgo.
The secret that Berlanga left us.
At the opening ceremony, Mariano Barroso, president of the Film Academy, read the first scene of the unpublished film, located in Barajas in 1992. And then, the script, along with the other documents that were in the box, a biography of Berlanga and a copy of a French magazine on The Executioner have come to occupy a special showcase in the exhibition Berlangian. Luis Garcia Berlanga, open at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando until September 5.
Via cool shooting pictures, other scripts (with comments), posters and sketches, the exhibition runs the essential legacy of the filmmaker and artist who best portrayed the best and the worst of Spain with an unmistakable sense of humor, a critical eye, satyr, who did not miss anything. All framed in snapshots of Spain at the time of Cristina Garcia Rodero, Santos Yubero… to create context and end in a 12-screen audiovisual installation who gloat in all the cinema of him.
Luis Garcia Berlanga Exhibition.
Promoted by the Film Academy and curated by Esperanza Garcia Claver, the exhibition is a complete tour of his work and a celebration of his entire legacy. A tribute to the more than 100 actors and actresses with whom he worked. “A sequence shot, of his life and ours”, Barroso said. It is a party of the berlanguiano, that new adjective that the Royal Academy of Language included in the dictionary to commemorate the Berlanga year. Another of the many events that will take place in these months between exhibitions, projections, meetings.
Filming of 'Thursdays, Miracle'.
From the shorts of him to Paris Timbuktu (1999), his last film. In the exhibition you can see the original posters for La escopeta nacional and Patrimonio nacional, the Goya that won best direction for Todos a la jail (1993), the pressbook for Welcome Mr Marshall (1953), with which he came to Cannes... Objects and details that will delight all Berlanguian fans and that further consolidate the importance of his figure and his work. National Heritage.
Filming of 'Long live the bride and groom!', 1970.