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This masterpiece of black humor, beloved in Spain but too little seen elsewhere, threads a scathing critique of Franco-era values through a macabre farce about an undertaker who marries an executioner's daughter and reluctantly takes over her father's job so the family can keep their government-allotted apartment. As caustic today as it was in 1963, this early collaboration between Luis Garcia Berlanga (Welcome, Mr. Marshall!, Placido) and his longtime screenwriter Rafael Azcona (El pisito, Belle Epoque) is an unerring depiction of what Berlanga called the invisible traps that society sets up for us. A furiously funny personal attack on capital punishment, The Executioner escaped the state censors who sought to suppress it, and today is regarded as one of the greatest Spanish films of all time.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
Product Details
Actors: José Isbert, Emma Penella, Nino Manfredi
Directors: Luis García Berlanga
Format: Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
NR
Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: October 25, 2016
Run Time: 92 minutes
Special Features
New, restored 4k digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interview with Filmmaker Pedro Almodovar New program on Director Luis Garcia Berlanga; film critic Carlos F. Heredero;Writers Fernando R. Lafuente and Bernardo Sanchez Salas; and Director of the Berlanga Film Museum Rafael Maluenda Spanish television program from 2009 on The Executioner, featuring archival interviews with Berlanga Trailer New English Subtitle Translation Plus: An essay by film critic David Cairns
Cast & Crew
Nino Manfredi Jose Luis
Emma Penella Carmen
Angel Alvarez Alvarez
Guido Alberti Governor of Prison
Maria Luisa Ponte Stefania
Julia Caba Alba Actor
Xan Das Bolas Watchman
Lola Gaos Actor
Chus Lampreave Woman at Works
Felix Fernandez 1st Sacristan
Alfredo Landa 2nd Sacristan
Jose Luis Coll Organist
Jose Sazatornil Administrator
José Luis Lopez Vasquez Antonio
Jose Isbert Verdugo, El (1963)
Technical Credits
Luis García Berlanga Director,Screenwriter
Miguel Asins-Arbo Score Composer
Rafael Azcona Screenwriter
Tonino Delli Colli Cinematographer
Jose Antonio de la Guerra Art Director
Ennio Flaiano Screenwriter
Alfonso Santacana Editor
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