El verdugo / 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 ; director, Luis Ga. Berlanga.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out guide (illustrations ; 16 cm).
Container of (work): Verdugo (Motion picture : 1963) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001027416
Notes:
Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez, Ángel Álvarez, Guido Alberti, Julia Caba Alba, María Luisa Ponte, María Isbert, José Orjas, Erasmo Pascual, Xan das Bolas, José Orjas, Jose Maria Prada, Elvira Quintillá, Alfredo Landa. Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1963. Widescreen (1.85:1). 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 ; new English subtitle translation ; essay by film critic David Cairns.
Summary:
Amado is a professional executioner about to retire. José Luis, soon to marry his daughter, Carmen, must inherit his father-in-law's unpopular profession in order to keep the house where they are going to live. All goes well until the day the son-in-law faces his first execution. Amadeo assures José Luis that the condemned man will be pardoned at the last minute, so José and his family take a vacation in Mallorca. But the pardon doesn't come.
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