This film seems rather in tune with the wave of Italian comedies coming out around this time. Morbid at times yet quietly funny. Berlanga has become something of a legend in Spanish cinema and I've only recently heard of him, it doesn't help that most of his films are unavailable here in the US and the few that are don't appear to have any subtitles (this one included). However the nuts and bolts of the story is that young man is the son of the undertaker. He can't find any perspective girl because of the extremely morbid family profession. He dreams of becoming a mechanic in Germany but that is not to be. He eventually meets a lovely young girl whose father happens to be the town's executioner. Naturally the two misfits are a perfect match but the would be son in law has to take over the family business in order to marry the executioners daughter. He is talked into it when the old man tells him lots of people get sentenced but they always are pardoned. Well it just so happens that his first case doesn't get pardoned and in a deliciously satirical moment the executioner is dragged off kicking and screaming on his way to execute the condemned. Bunuelian in its sense of humor which has led a few to wonder if it isn't just a Spanish trait. I certainly hope I can get some more films from Berlanga, most notably Bienvenido Mister Marshall and Placido.