''La escopeta nacional'' (in English, ''The National Shotgun'') is a 1978
Spanish
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comedy film directed by
Luis García Berlanga
Luis García-Berlanga Martí (12 June 1921 – 13 November 2010) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Acclaimed as a pioneer of modern Spanish cinema, his films are marked by social satire and acerbic critiques of Spanish culture under t ...
. The first installment in a critically and commercially successful trilogy, the picture is an indictment of the legacy of
Francisco Franco and the business classes upon whom he depended for support. The picture was followed in the trilogy by
Patrimonio nacional
Patrimonio Nacional ( en, National Heritage) is a Spanish autonomous agency, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Presidency, that administers the sites owned by the Spanish State and used by the Monarch and the Spanish Royal F ...
and
Nacional III
Nacional III is a Spanish comedy film from 1982 directed by Luis García Berlanga and written by him together with Rafael Azcona, the third part of the trilogy about the Leguineche family after La escopeta nacional (1978) and Patrimonio nacional ...
, both of which were released in 1981.
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1978 comedy-drama films
1978 films
Spanish comedy-drama films
Films directed by Luis García Berlanga
1970s Spanish-language films
Catalan-language films
1978 comedy films
1978 drama films
1978 multilingual films
Spanish multilingual films
1970s Spanish films
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