El Verdugo The Executioner Luis García Berlanga [videorecording]=

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Luis García Berlanga

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Summary language: English Original language: Spanish Subtitle language: English Series: The Criterion Collection ; Vol. 840Publication details: Spain Italy Mercury Films Janus Films Naga Films Zebra Films 1963Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) sound, B&W. 4 3/4 inUniform titles:

The Executioner

LOC classification:

PN1997 .V473 1963

Summary: From case cover: 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 1963, this early collaboration between Luis García Berlanga and his longtime screenwriter Rafael Azcona 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 evaded the state censors who sought to suppress it, and today is regarded as one of the greatest Spanish films of all time.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-E: DVD Cabinet E	PN1997 .V473 1963	Available		002323

Special features include:
- Interview with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar
- Program on director Luis García Berlanga; featuring interviews with his son José Luis Berlanga, film critic Carlos F. Heredero, writers Fernando R. Lafuente and Bernardo Sánchez Salas and director of the Berlanga Film Museum Rafael Maluenda
- Spanish television program from 2009 on The Executioner, featuring archival interviews with Berlanga
- An essay by film critic David Cairns

From case cover:
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 1963, this early collaboration between Luis García Berlanga and his longtime screenwriter Rafael Azcona 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 evaded the state censors who sought to suppress it, and today is regarded as one of the greatest Spanish films of all time.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; 1080p; Region A; 1.85:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

Spanish audio with English subtitles.

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