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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.
Luis García Berlanga
Director
for Director in Mientras dure la guerra (1989)
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Mientras dure la guerra es una película española biográfica-dramática de 2019 dirigida por Alejandro Amenábar. Fue escrita por Amenábar y Alejandro Hernández. Comenzó a rodarse en Salamanca el 28 de mayo de 2018 y está interpretada en sus principales papeles por Karra Elejalde (Miguel de Unamuno), Eduard Fernández (José Millán-Astray), Santi Prego (Francisco Franco) y Nathalie Poza (Ana Carrasco Robledo).4 Fue estrenada para el público en general el 27 de septiembre de 2019; unos días antes había sido proyectada dentro del programa de Presentaciones Especiales de la 44.ª edición del Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto. While at War (Spanish: Mientras dure la guerra) is a 2019 Spanish-Argentine[1] historical drama war film directed by Alejandro Amenábar. Set in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, the plot tracks the plight of philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno (performed by Karra Elejalde) in Salamanca, a city controlled by the Rebel faction.
