Directed by Luis García Berlanga • 1970 • Spain
Starring José Luis López Vázquez, Laly Soldevila, José María Prada
In this black-comic sex farce, middle-aged bank clerk Leonardo (José Luis López Vázquez) travels to the Mediterranean tourist town of Sitges to marry his bride-to-be, Loli (Laly Soldevila). Their beach holiday doesn’t go quite as planned, however, as the vacationing foreign women catch Leonardo’s wandering eye and fuel his erotic fantasies. And then there’s the problem of what to do when Leonardo finds his mother floating dead in a swimming pool . . .
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Patrimonio nacional
Directed by Luis García Berlanga • 1981 • Spain
Starring Luis Escobar, Agustín González, Luis CigesLuis García Berlanga takes aim at the decadence of the Spanish ruling class in this irreverent ensemble comedy, the second of three popular comedies the director made about the noble Leguineche fa...
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Nacional III
Directed by Luis García Berlanga • 1982 • Spain
Starring Luis Escobar, Luis Ciges, Agustín GonzálezThe third installment in Luis García Berlanga’s trilogy about the (mis)fortunes of the once wealthy, now destitute Leguineche family follows the Marquis of Leguineche (Luis Escobar) as he is force...
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Everyone Off to Jail
Directed by Luis García Berlanga • 1993 • Spain
Starring José Sazatornil, Agustín González, José SacristánLuis García Berlanga’s penultimate film is a raucous screwball satire in which a prison in Valencia hosts an event recognizing the political prisoners jailed during Franco’s reign. As an od...
