Executioner/bd

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Executioner/bd

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.

Media	Movies Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc)
Number of discs	1
Released	October 25, 2016
EAN/UPC	0715515187312
Label	Criterion CCIN2689BR
Genre	Drama
Dimensions	134 × 166 × 14 mm · 94 g
Playtime	01:32:00
Region code	Region A (Americas, East and Southeast Asia)
Audio Format	DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Language	Spanish
Subtitles	English
Director	Luis García Berlanga
Skuespiller	Nino Manfredi
Skuespiller	Emma Penella
Skuespiller	José Isbert
Skuespiller	José Luis López Vázquez
Skuespiller	Ángel Álvarez
Skuespiller	Guido Alberti