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Alegato contra la tortura.(TT: Arguments against torture.)(ReseÃ±a)

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"El verdugo", de Luis García Berlanga y Rafael Azcona

A comienzos de siglo, el autor norteamericano Ambrose Bierce definía en su Diccionario del Diablo al verdugo como "persona que hace lo que puede para disminuir los estragos de la senilidad, y reducir las posibilidades de que la gente muera ahogada". A comienzos de los años sesenta, en España, el verdugo tomó cuerpo en las pantallas de cine en la persona de Pepe Isbert. Aquel sería, de la mano de Luis García Berlanga y Rafael Azcona, uno de los mayores alegatos contra la tortura. Ahora, el Teatro de la Latina de ...

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