DVD
The executioner
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Performers
Nino Manfredi, José Isbert, Emma Penella, José Luis López Vázquez, Guido Alberti.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
1 videodiscs (92 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
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.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer ; new interview with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar ; new program on director Luis García Berlanga, featuring interviews with his son José Luis Berlanga, film critic Carlos F. Heredero, writers Fernando R. Lafuente and Bernardo Sanchez Salas, and director of the Berlanga Film Museum Rafael Maluenda ; Spanish television program from 2009 on The executioner, featuring archival interviews with Berlanga ; trailers ; new English subtitle translation.