Exhibition «Interior Berlanga. Cine, Life and Humour»

In 1953, for the film «¡Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall!», programmes were printed in the shape of a dollar bill. At the Cannes Festival, their resemblance led to a complaint for currency forgery. Two of these programmes will be on display at CaixaForum Madrid, where an exhibition on Luis García Berlanga will take place from 25 November 2026 to 23 May 2027.

The director's personal archive will be presented to the public for the first time after being catalogued and digitised. Among the items on display are photographs of Berlanga as a child, a list of French films he watched in the 1940s, and a notebook page with a visual poem. These objects complete the story of how the director faced censorship, found humour in everyday life, and returned again and again to his own fears in his films.

The exhibition is conceived as a succession of sets. From the office, visitors move to the film set, then to a 1950s cinema, and finally to a Valencian falla where the films and their protagonists are symbolically burned. In a separate area, the director's son, José Luis García Berlanga, explains how to shoot a scene in a single take. There, visitors can try out the travelling shot and record a moving camera shot.