El verdugo = Executioner /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Verdugo (Motion picture : 1963)
Other Authors:	Berlanga, Luis García (Screenwriter), Azcona, Rafael, 1926-2008 (Screenwriter), Flaiano, Ennio, 1910-1972 (Screenwriter), Delli Colli, Tonino (director of photography.), Asíns Arbó, Miguel, 1916-1996 (composer (expression)), Manfredi, Nino, 1921-2004 (Actor), Penella, Emma, 1930- (Actor), Isbert, José, 1885-1966 (Actor), López Vázquez, José Luis (Actor), Álvarez, Ángel, 1906-1983 (Actor), Alberti, Guido, 1909-1996 (Actor), Caba Alba, Julia, 1912-1988 (Actor), Ponte, María Luisa, 1918-1996 (Actor), Isbert, María, 1917-2011 (Actor), Pascual, Erasmo, 1903-1975 (Actor), Bolas, Xan das, 1908-1977 (Actor), Orjas, José, 1906-1983 (Actor), Prada, José Maria (Actor)
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Spanish
Language Notes:	In Spanish, with optional subtitles in English.
Published:	[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Edition:	DVD special edition.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 840.
Subjects:	Executions and executioners > Spain > Drama. Undertakers and undertaking > Spain > Drama. Families > Spain > Drama. Capital punishment > Drama. Capital punishment > Spain > Drama. Capital punishment. Executions and executioners. Families. Undertakers and undertaking. Spain. Dark comedy films. Fiction films. Feature films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Spanish. Motion pictures, Italian. Drama.

Description
Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Title from title screen. Orginally produced as a 1963 motion picture. Insert includes an essay by film critic David Cairns: By the neck. Bonus features: New interview with Pedro Almodóvar ; Bad Spaniard: new program on director Luis García Berlanga ; episode of the Spanish television program La mitad invisible from 2009 on The executioner, featuring archival interviews with Berlanga ; trailer.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Format:	DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital monoaural.
Audience:	MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits:	Art direction, Luis Arguello ; editor, Alfonso Santacana ; music, Miguel Asins Arbó ; director of photography, Tonino Delli Colli.
ISBN:	9781681432175 168143217X