Welcome Mr. Marshall! (1953)

Original title

¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!

Directed by

Luis García Berlanga

Genre

comedy film

Country

Spain

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

A

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 123 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small Spanish village gets ready for a visit from American officials as part of the Marshall Plan. The villagers dress up and act out stereotypes they think the Americans expect to see.

satiricalabsurdistplayfulnostalgiclightheartedwhimsicalbittersweetobservational

What happens

Welcome Mr. Marshall! (Spanish: ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!) is a 1953 Spanish satirical absurdist comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga, and considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish cinema. The film highlights the stereotypes held by both the Spanish and the Americans regarding the culture of the other, as well as displays social criticism of 1950s Francoist Spain (showing a typical Spanish village, with typical inhabitants: a priest, the majority of the population that are peasants, the mayor, and a hidalgo). The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. It was the first full-length film Berlanga directed alone. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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