SPAIN · 1963

El verdugo

Luis García Berlanga
capital punishment family obligation social satire dark comedy class struggle
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An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

Year1963
CountrySpain
DirectorLuis García Berlanga
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