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The Executioner (1963 Film)
''The Executioner'' () 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. Plot Amadeo, an executioner in Madrid, meets José Luis, a funeral parlour employee who is going to pick up the prisoner that Amadeo has just executed. José Luis cannot find a girlfriend, since all girls leave him when they find out that he works in a funeral parlour. Amadeo's daughter, Carmen, cannot find a boyfriend, because all the candidates leave when they find out that her father is an executioner. Carmen and José Luis get to know each other and start a relationship that they declare to Amadeo when Carmen becomes pregnant. Amadeo hopes that the government will give him a flat (given that he is a civil servant), but they refuse it because by the time they give it to him, he will be retired. He and his daughter trick José ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis García Berlanga
Luis García-Berlanga Martí Medal of Merit in Labour, MMT (12 June 1921 – 13 November 2010) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. Acclaimed as a pioneer of modern Spanish cinema, his films are marked by social satire and acerbic critiques of Spanish culture under the Francoist Spain, Francoist dictatorship. These include ''Welcome Mr. Marshall!'' (1953), which won the International Prize (Comedy Film) at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, ''Plácido (film), Plácido'' (1961), nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 34th Academy Awards, 1962, and ''The Executioner (1963 film), The Executioner'' (1963), winner of the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI Prize at the 24th Venice International Film Festival He kept a long-time collaboration with screenwriter Rafael Azcona, with whom he co-wrote the scripts for seven of his films between 1961 and 1987. Early years Berlanga was born on June 12, 1921, into an affluent family in the city of V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Caba Alba
Julia Caba Alba (31 July 1902 – 14 November 1988) was a Spanish actress who appeared in more than a hundred films and television series during her career. She was a noted character actress.Mira p.83 Her sister was the actress Irene Caba Alba. Selected filmography * '' Saint Rogelia'' (1940) * '' The Sin of Rogelia Sanchez'' (1940) * ''The Bullfighter's Suit'' (1947) * ''Anguish'' (1947) * ''The Sunless Street'' (1948) * '' The Howl'' (1948) * '' Just Any Woman'' (1949) * '' Ninety Minutes'' (1949) * '' The Duchess of Benameji'' (1949) * '' Troubled Lives'' (1949) * '' The Maragatan Sphinx'' (1950) * '' Thirty Nine Love Letters'' (1950) * '' Black Sky'' (1951) * '' Our Lady of Fatima'' (1951) * '' Malibran's Song'' (1951) * ''The Seventh Page'' (1951) * '' Captain Poison'' (1951) * '' From Madrid to Heaven'' (1952) * '' The Song of Sister Maria'' (1952) * '' Sister San Sulpicio'' (1952) * '' Such is Madrid'' (1953) *'' I Was a Parish Priest''. (1953) * ''Airport'' (1953) * '' M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communism
Communism () is a political sociology, sociopolitical, political philosophy, philosophical, and economic ideology, economic ideology within the history of socialism, socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.: "One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption." A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the State (polity), state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a Libertarian socialism, libertarian socialist approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and an authoritarian socialism, authoritarian socialist, vanguardis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julián Grimau
Julián Grimau García (18 February 1911 – 20 April 1963) was a Spanish politician, member of the Communist Party of Spain, executed during Francisco Franco's Francoist State. Political activities Initially active in the Federal Republican Party and the Republican Left, he joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) upon the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Grimau spent the war years in Barcelona, where his father had been a police inspector. He was in charge of a notorious Republican prison in Barcelona from 1937 to 1938, where numerous Nationalist prisoners and anti-Stalinist communists were tortured and killed. When the Second Spanish Republic was defeated by Francisco Franco's nationales in 1939, he sought political asylum in Latin America, and later settled in France. Grimau became one of the PCE leaders, joining the Central Committee after its Congress in Prague (1954). In 1959, he took charge of the "internal" wing of the party which operated clandestinely in Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francoist Spain
Francoist Spain (), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (), or Nationalist Spain () was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spain transitioned into a democracy. During Franco's rule, Spain was officially known as the Spanish State (). The informal term "Fascist Spain" is also used, especially before and during World War II. During its existence, the nature of the regime evolved and changed. Months after the start of the Civil War in July 1936, Franco emerged as the dominant rebel military leader and he was proclaimed head of state on 1 October 1936, ruling a dictatorship over the territory which was controlled by the Nationalist faction. The 1937 Unification Decree, which merged all of the parties which supported the rebel side, led to Nationalist Spain becoming a single-party regime under the FET y de las JONS. The end of the Civil War in 1939 bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Five" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Film festival#Notable festivals, Big Three European Film Festivals (Venice, Cannes, Berlin), alongside the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada and the Sundance Film Festival in the United States. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by Giuseppe Volpi, member of the National Fascist Party and grandfather of producer Marina Cicogna, in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The range of work at the Venice Biennale now covers Italian and international art, architecture, dance, music, theatre, and cinema. These works ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIPRESCI Prize
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for ''Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique'') is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in Brussels, Belgium. It has members in more than 50 countries worldwide. History In reaction to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIPRESCI announced that it will not participate in festivals and other events organized by the Russian government and its offices, and canceled a colloquium in St. Petersburg, that was to make it familiar with new Russian films. FIPRESCI Award The FIPRESCI often presents awards during film festivals to recognize examples of enterprising filmmaking. Some of these festivals include: the Berlin International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, Vienna International Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Ferrandis
Antonio Ferrandis Monrabal (28 February 1921 – 16 October 2000) was a Spanish actor, remembered especially for the role of ''Chanquete'' in the Spanish television series '' Verano azul''. Biography Born on 28 February 1921 in Paterna, province of Valencia, after the Spanish Civil War he was a teacher since he began his studies in teaching, although his true passion would be the theatre His first role on stage was in ''Oedipus'', co-starring with Francisco Rabal in 1950. In his younger days highlighted in several films. Years later was one of the great protagonists of Spanish cinema. Known for playing ''Chanquete'' in the television series ''Verano azul'' in 1981. He died on 16 October 2000 in Valencia Chiron hospital at 79 years old. Ten years after his death, on 15 October 2010, his home town, Paterna, paid homage to a documentary of his life in the theater that bears his name. Selected filmography * '' Flight 971'' (1953) * '' The Fair of the Dove'' (1963) * '' Sor Citr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Fernández (actor)
Félix Fernández García (26 September 1897 – 4 July 1966) was a Spanish actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1942 to 1969. Filmography References External links * * 1897 births 1966 deaths Spanish male film actors {{Spain-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María Prada
José María Prada Oterino (31 March 1925 – 13 August 1978) was a Spanish film and television actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1954 and 1978. Partial filmography * ''Doña María the Brave'' (1948) - Marqués de Santillana * ''Comedians'' (1954) - Decorador * ''Felices Pascuas'' (1954) - Barbero (uncredited) * '' The Coyote'' (1955) - Barman * '' The Coyote's Justice'' (1956) - Barman (uncredited) * ''También hay cielo sobre el mar'' (1956) - Maestro * '' The Rocket from Calabuch'' (1956) - Juan (voice, uncredited) * ''Sonatas'' (1959) - Molinero * ''Juanito'' (1960) - Dr. Ramiro * '' La gran familia'' (1962) - Locutor de radio * '' The Executioner'' (1963) - Vigilante con botella de champán * ''La verbena de la Paloma'' (1963) * ''Aquella joven de blanco'' (1964) - Priest * '' La Tía Tula'' (1964) - Sacerdote * ''Faites vos jeux, mesdames'' (1965) * '' The Art of Living'' (1965) - Gálvez * '' Crimen de doble filo'' (1965) - Sixto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Orjas
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xan Das Bolas
Tomás Ares Pena, known as Xan das Bolas (30 October 1908 – 13 September 1977) was a Spanish comic actor active during the franquism with films including '' Botón de ancla'' (1961). Filmography Films TV series References External links * {{Authority control 1908 births 1977 deaths Spanish male film actors Spanish male television actors Male actors from Galicia (Spain) 20th-century Spanish male actors Actors from A Coruña ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
