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Venice and its lagoon are the third most visited places in italy, after rome and milan as well as part of the unesco world heritage since 1987. The executioner of venice, also known as blood of the executioner,1 is a 1963 italian swashbuckler film cowritten and directed by luigi capuano and starring. In venice,during the inquisition,sandrigo bembo,the son of the doge giovanni bembo,is falsely accused of treason out of pure malice by the grand inquisitor rodrigo zeno. Perhaps not surprisingly, the executioner was shown at the venice film festival in 1963 and won the fipresci prize.
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