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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (10 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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.
Video Mercury Films ; Naga Films, S.A. y Zebra Films, S.P.A. presentan en coproducción hispano-italiana ; un film de Luis Ga. Berlanga ; argumento y guión, Luis Ga. Berlanga y Rafael Azcona ; colaborator en el guión, Ennio Flaiano ; productor ejecutivo, Nazario Belmar ; director, Luis Ga. Berlanga.
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.
Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez, Ángel Álvarez, Guido Alberti, Julia Caba Alba, María Luisa Ponte, María Isbert, Erasmo Pascual, Xan Das Bolas, José Orjas, Jose Maria Prada.
DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital monoaural.
In Spanish, with optional subtitles in English.
Art direction, Luis Arguello ; editor, Alfonso Santacana ; music, Miguel Asins Arbó ; director of photography, Tonino Delli Colli.