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The Executioner

El verdugo

1963

Luis García Berlanga

José Isbert, Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Luis López Vázquez ...

8.2

42,010

Comedy An undertaker's assistant marries an executioner's daughter, and the new groom takes on his father-in-law's job but grows real squeamish when the time comes to execute someone. UK TimeOut movie critic wrote: "Regularly voted by its country's critics as the best Spanish film of all time, Berlanga's brilliant dark comedy on the peculiar horror of the garotte has not lost its power over the years."

	Author	Review
United States	Village Voice	"Formally Berlanga's most elegant film (...) a powerful condemnation of capital punishment and the Francoist myths of duty and patriotism"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[A] macabre comedy (...) It all makes horrible sense (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Berlanga's brilliantly dark comedy on the peculiar horror of the garotte has not lost its power over the years"	POS

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