If it's not the best Spanish film of all time, it won't be far from it.
One of those tragicomedies with undertones of social criticism that I like so much. Between laughs, a sharp criticism of Franco's regime and the death penalty. VERY black humour, with the HUGE Pepe Isbert.
An executioner who is in charge of executing the condemned in the middle of Franco's regime is looking for someone to leave his position to (a good civil servant with a secure job for life). He would like to leave it to his son-in-law, but nobody wants his daughter, precisely because of her father-in-law's profession.
Only a young gravedigger dares to date the executioner's daughter. But he soon discovers that burying the dead is not the same as executing the living.
A great comedy that leaves you with a lump in your throat. Essential to understand the grey Spain we come from.
