this Ministry of Culture and Sports completed the acquisition of the archive. Luis Garcia Berlanga For an amount of 357,000 Euros. After several years of negotiations with the family, a goodwill agreement was reached between the parties that 74 boxes containing various kinds of documents collected by the filmmaker during his lifetime are part of the state public collections. The material is held in the premises of Filmoteca Española, an affiliate of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), which will be responsible for its preservation and distribution.
The Ministry of Culture has not confirmed at this time whether this heritage will be transferred to Valencia, as the head of culture Miquel Iceta suggested in an interview last January. Culture says in a statement that only the Berlanga Archive will “continue to enrich the Spanish Film Library collections,” without reference to a possible precise location in the filmmaker’s hometown.
The Berlanga family also showed their aspirations for their heritage to be preserved and displayed in Valencia. “The best result that this respect can have is that my father’s legacy has a physical place to showcase itself. Frankly, we want it to happen in Valencia,” said Fernando García-Berlanga. Levante-EMV Award in the Audiovisual Production category in 2021.
Another son of the director, José Luis García-Berlanga, reassured in his statements today. Levante-EMV from the Prensa Ibérica group, that the decision regarding the possible transfer of his father’s archive to Valencia now rests with the Ministry of Culture and the Generalitat. “I hope I go to Valencia,” said García-Berlanga. Who “knows” that “president” Ximo Puig “will be so excited” that the filmmaker’s personal archive is on display in his hometown.
Berlanga’s eldest son, the “will” of the family, In negotiations with the ministry, the director’s descendants did not put any conditions on the possible transfer of the archive to Valencia.
Since this newspaper was already published a year ago, Generalitat did not want Luis García Berlanga’s corporate memory to be diluted after the year dedicated to the director’s centennial, and planned to offer the director a space for his work to be examined. and spread and revealed themselves personal memories and memories of his movies.
Presidential sources today confirmed that the ministry was “open” in principle to the fact that the Berlanga dossier ended in Valencia, but they also acknowledged that: no specific target There is no official confirmation about this.
School grades and season tickets from Valencia CF
The documents in the archive are diverse and include Berlanga’s entire career, the ministry said in a statement. one of the files.more complete and complexReceived by the Spanish Film Library and here, its preservation and future consultations are thought to shed a lot of light on the cultural life of Spain in the last century and one of its most relevant artistic and cultural figures.
Heritage is organized into several categories: personal and family documents, creative work, labor documentscorrespondence, awards, souvenirs and personal objects, graphic documents, magazines and press clippings, and works created by others.
Personal and family documents include albums with family photos, notebooks with childhood school notes, documents of their time at school. Blue Section or personal memories, Like season tickets for Valencia Football Club or collections of Christmas cards from other movie figures.
The original scripts, typed or handwritten, with explanations and ideas of Berlanga himself, are among the works of creation. There are several among others versions of some of his most iconic movies, such as “That happy couple”, “Welcome Mr Marshall!” anyone ‘Do not’, as well as lots of unfinished project scripts. According to the ministry, the archive perfectly documents Berlanga’s conflict and constant conflicts with the military. Franco censorship It will allow to know firsthand the results through these articles and in one of the most relevant Spanish artworks of the last century. There has also been a wide variety of draft speech and writing samples over several decades, conference interventions at conventions, academic meetings, and other types of forums.
In addition to professional documents, the archive also holds correspondence with some important figures of Spanish cinema. Rafael Azcona, Juan Antonio Bardem, Basilio Martín Patino, Luis Ciges or José Luis López Vázquez. Added to this are hundreds of awards and prizes, as well as memorabilia and personal items such as documents from the 1962 Oscar ceremony, for which ‘Plácido’ was nominated for ‘Best Foreign Language Film’.
Photos, posters, drawings and ‘storyboards’
Graphic documentation is also an important part of the filmmaker’s legacy: positives on paper, negatives and slides with photographs of personal, family and professional themes, He takes photographs of many of his films as well as corporate and political actions.
Among the documents are numerous drawings by Berlanga. various theme. Some are erotic, others are just characters, objects or comics. They are made on a wide variety of supports and in a variety of techniques such as pencil drawing, watercolor or felt-tip pens. add also notebooks with storyboardsas “Welcome back, Mr Marshall!” or one ‘Kalabuç’, as well as established plans such as those for ‘that happy couple’, and location search graphic files.
This group is complemented by a collection of film posters of both himself and others, as well as promotional material from film festivals and their films. The archive also contains photocopies of articles from press clippings, newspapers and interviews and information about Luis García Berlanga’s films in different publications.
Collection increase
The Berlanga Archive will continue to enrich the collections of the Spanish Film Library, which has increased its collections through both purchase and donation since 2018. Basilio Martín Patino, Félix Murcia, Cruz Delgado or Iván Zulueta. Some of these archives are part of the digitization project that the Institution will carry out until 2026 with the support of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan and a donation of more than 10 million euros.