THE EXECUTIONER [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1963
• Genre: Comedy; Drama
• Plot: 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 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.;
• Cast: Emilio Alonso; Emilio Laguna; Manuel Alexandre; Elvira Quintillá; Sergio Mendizábal; Antonio Ferrandis; Félix Fernández; José María Prada; José Orjas; Emma Penella; José Isbert; José Luis López Vázquez; Ángel Álvarez; Chus Lampreave; Julia Caba Alba; María Luisa Ponte; María Isbert; Erasmo Pascual; Xan das Bolas; Guido Alberti; José Luis Coll; Nino Manfredi; Lola Gaos; Santiago Ontañón; Alfredo Landa; José Sazatornil; Agustín González; Goyo Lebrero; José Cordero; Pedro Beltrán; Rafael Hernández; Dolores García; José Antonio Rodríguez; Agustín Zaragoza; Valentín Tornos; Antonio Alfonso Vidal; Luis García Berlanga; Rafael Azcona; Ennio Flaiano; Nazario Belmar; Tonino Delli Colli; Alfonso Santacana; Miguel Asins Arbó; Felipe Fernández; Luis Argüello
• Director: Luis García Berlanga
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: Ars Films (Ismael González Díaz), Naga Films, Zebra Films, Video Mercury Films, S.A., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie