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999 _c1993
_d1993
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040 _cSILC
041 _aspa
_beng
_hspa
_jeng
046 _k1963
050 _aPN1997
_b.V473 1963
100 _aLuis García Berlanga
_91300
240 _aThe Executioner
245 _aEl Verdugo
_bThe Executioner
_cLuis García Berlanga
_h[videorecording]=
260 _aSpain
_aItaly
_bMercury Films
_bJanus Films
_bNaga Films
_bZebra Films
_c1963
300 _a1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.)
_bsound, B&W.
_c4 3/4 in.
440 _aThe Criterion Collection
_vVol. 840
500 _aSpecial 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
520 _aFrom 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.
538 _aDVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; 1080p; Region A; 1.85:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
546 _aSpanish audio with English subtitles.
700 _aLuis García Berlanga
_eDirector
_eWriter
_91300
700 _aRafael Azcona
_eWriter
700 _aNino Manfredi
_eActor
700 _aEmma Penella
_eActor
700 _aJosé Isbert
_eActor
942 _2lcc
_cDVD