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Queridísimos verdugos / una producción de La Linterna Mágica S.L. ; guión y dirección, Basilio Martín Patino ; con la colaboración de José Luis García Sánchez.
LIBRA DVD/PAL 019 191 DVD + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Martín Patino, Basilio. Obra audiovisual de Basilio Martín Patino
- Obra audiovisual de Basilio Martín Patino
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--Spain--History.
- Capital punishment.
- Executions and executioners--Spain--History.
- Executions and executioners.
- History.
- Spain--Politics and government--1939-1975.
- Spain.
- Politics and government.
- Francoism.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Motion pictures, Spanish.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color with black and white seq. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] pages ; 18 cm).
- Place of Publication:
- [Spain] : Suevia Films, [2004?]
- Language Note:
- In Spanish.
- System Details:
- DVD, PAL, Regions 1-6; Dolby Digital 2.0.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby digital 2.0
- PAL
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This unusual Spanish documentary, compiled in the final years of the Franco regime in Spain, explores the thoughts, attitudes and work of a number of official and semi-official executioners - men who have enforced the death penalty. The film covers the entire era following the Civil War in 1939 up to the time of Franco's death in 1975. The original footage ran to over four hours, but only shorter versions (ranging from two hours to an hour and forty minutes in length) were released.
- Participant:
- Antonio López Sierra, Vicente Copete, Bernardo Sánchez Bascuñana (the executioners).
- Credits:
- Editor, Eduardo Biurrun; photography, Acacio de Almeida; music, J.S. Bach.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 1977.
- Special features: fragments from "Inquisición y libertad" (59 minutes); biofilmographies.
- Aspect ratio 4:3.
- OCLC:
- 55108090
- Publisher Number:
- 8431797101946
- MND 1194 Suevia Films
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