TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luis García Berlanga
AU  - Luis García Berlanga
AU  - Rafael Azcona
AU  - Nino Manfredi
AU  - Emma Penella
AU  - José Isbert
TI  - El Verdugo: The Executioner
AV  - PN1997 .V473 1963
PY  - 1963///
CY  - Spain, Italy
PB  - Mercury Films, Janus Films, Naga Films, Zebra Films
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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