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The Executioner (Spanish: El Verdugo) is a 1963 Spanish satirical dark comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga. It was filmed in black and white, and is widely considered a classic of Spanish cinema. The film won several awards, both in Spain and internationally.
The Executioner is a 1970 British Cold War neo noir spy thriller film directed by Sam Wanamaker in Panavision and starring George Peppard as secret agent John Shay who suspects his colleague Adam Booth, played by Keith Michell, is a double agent.
The Executioner: Directed by Luis García Berlanga. With Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez. An undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
Jan 30, 2018 · With Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella and José Isbert. The Executioner Blu-ray (Amazon) : https://amzn.to/49BKjWu The Executioner Blu-ray (Criterion) :...
The Executioner. 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.
Jan 30, 2017 · Film Review: “The Executioner” — Death Be Not Pedestrian. January 30, 2017 | Leave a Comment. In this 1963 masterpiece, Luis García Berlanga entertainingly but ruthlessly lampoons the cruelties and absurdities of Spanish life under dictatorship.
Oct 26, 2016 · As a product of General Franco’s fascist Spain, The Executioner has special significance in this regard—and Berlanga had been from the beginning a master of veiled, acidic satire—but as a product of Western civilization, it has a more general one as well.
