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The legacy left 13 years ago by the filmmaker

Luis García Berlanga

in the Caja de las Letras of the Instituto Cervantes includes an unpublished script for

'¡Viva Russia!'

, signed with Rafael Azcona, to continue the saga of the

National Trilogy

. This was revealed by the filmmaker's grandchildren, Fidel and Jorge García Berlanga, after the opening of the safe in an event in which Luis García Montero, director of

the Cervantes Institute

, and Mariano Barroso, president of the

Academia de Movie theater.

Thirteen years ago the director of 'El verdugo' left these documents in box number 1034, known as the Box of Letters, but until today its content was unknown since the director did not want to discover it at that time, which was also a of his last public appearances.

As García Montero has pointed out, it is a legacy "full of significance."

Apart from the script, a copy of the book 'Berlanga, contra el poder y la gloria.

Scenes of a life ', a detailed biography of the filmmaker, written by Antonio Gómez Rufo, and number 465 of the French magazine

' L'Avant-scène cinema '

, dedicated to the film' The executioner (Le bourreau) ', dated October 1997.

The script, a continuation of the films 'Nacional III', 'Patrimonio Nacional' and 'La escopeta nacional', was a "commitment to the future." The director of the Cervantes has explained that this unpublished script was going to be recorded and due to the death of the actor Luis Escobar, the protagonist in the previous films, it was delayed and was finally unpublished. The specimen has been

transferred to the 'Berlanguiano' exhibition

organized by the Film Academy at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. "He was a true genius, he created without pretense and had a goblin who could not silence neither shame nor comfort," one of his grandchildren immediately claimed.

For his part, Luis García Montero has affirmed that Berlanga is "a fundamental reference of cinema and of the recent history of Spain", at the same time that he has vindicated the validity of his film work and has assured that the adjective berlanguiano (admitted by the Royal Academia Española) implies a way of seeing the world established by the filmmaker.

297 ACTIVITIES AT THE CERVANTES INSTITUTE

Regarding the Cervantes Institute, immersed in its 30th anniversary, he recalled that García Berlanga visited several venues between 1997 and 2008 on at least 13 occasions, and that the institution has organized more than 1,000 activities on him in numerous centers, most of them cycles and film screenings (subtitled in fifteen languages), but also colloquia, interviews, tributes, workshops, etc.

This year 2021 includes in its program

297 activities around

Berlanga's

work

, both in person and online, such as the cycle 'Berlanga, la risa amarga', which will feature directors such as Chus Gutiérrez, Inés París, Trueba, Albadalejo or Cobeaga. A program of 12 workshops is also being prepared for secondary school students on the trades of the cinema, to which is added the current online cycle 'Berlanga celebrates one hundred years', which insufficiently disseminates four films by Plácido's director in more than 40 centers known abroad.

Meanwhile, Mariano Barroso thanked the Cervantes Institute for its generosity in this event for "the importance of the symbolic", for the recognition of the role of the great filmmakers and because "it makes us feel very proud to belong to the world of cinema".

This was followed by an informal discussion in the auditorium with the actor José Sacristán and the actress Mónica Randall - co-stars of several Berlanga feature films - moderated by the film director, producer and writer David Trueba.

BERLANGA ANECDOTES

In the round table 'Berlanga is 100 years old', they have talked about personal experiences and anecdotes, mentioning the freshness and naturalness of the innumerable secondary ones, the difficulties of the sequence shots (long shots without cuts) that the Valencian director liked so much, his disagreements with the actor Adolfo Marsillach when he replaced Luis Escobar, the fetishism inherent in his films, freedom, dubbing or his low level of knowledge outside of Spain (which would not happen "if he had been a persecuted Jew," said Mónica Randall) .

In short, a journey through the trajectory of someone who "is a reference for anyone who wants to dedicate himself to cinema", according to David Trueba, who has repeatedly recalled his

affable, funny and generous character,

as well as the censorship he suffered or the unfinished projects in his first stage, until he achieved a blazing success with 'La escopeta nacional'.

The double tribute of the Cervantes Institute has concluded with the transfer of the script, by García Montero and Mariano Barroso, to the neighboring headquarters of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, to be integrated into the exhibition 'Berlanguiano.

Luis García Berlanga 1921-2021 '.

As for the rest of the legacy, it has returned to be kept in the Caja de las Letras until it becomes part of the

Patrimonial Library of the Instituto Cervantes,

at its headquarters in Alcalá de Henares.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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