Not on Your Life

Not on your Life is a 1963 Spanish black comedy film directed by Luis Garca Berlanga. Its original Spanish title is El Verdugo, which means The Executioner. It is widely considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish cinema.

El Verdugo was the eighth feature film written and directed by Luis Garca Berlanga in collaboration with his longtime associate, Rafael Azcona. The story pivots upon the fate of a pleasant, if somewhat timid, young undertaker whose dream is to go to Germany and become a mechanic. This dream is thwarted when he happens to meet the executioner in a prison where both of them are plying their trade. In spite of the aversion that the young man and everyone else feels for the executioner, he not only ends up marrying the executioners daughter, but even takes over his fatherinlaws business.El Verdugo is a farce or domestic comedy filled with macabre touches and scenes of black humor in which the taboos associated with death are transgressed. Even the actual mode of execution is the subject of morbid jokes as the executioner, who garrots his victims, measures the neck size of his future soninlaw. The film is punctuated with these bits of gallows humor as well as with comic reversals that take the audience by surprise. A fine example of this occurs at the end of the movie when the young executioner is carried kicking and screaming like the victim into the prison where he will perform his first execution. ........

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