Death of a Bureaucrat
1966
It is easier to kill a bureaucrat than to kill bureaucracy.
Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
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A model Cuban revolutionary tragically dies at work and, as a badge of honor, is buried with his labor card in his suit pocket. When his widow attempts to apply for his pension, the pension office demands the original labor card. Desperate, his nephew embarks on an increasingly chaotic and surreal quest through the Cuban bureaucratic system to secure permission to exhume the body, only to be met with endless forms, contradictory regulations, and apathetic officials.
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- Director
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Written by
- Alfredo L. Del Cueto, Ramón F. Suárez, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Produced by
- Margarita Alexandre
- Composer
- Leo Brouwer
- Cinematographer
- Ramón F. Suárez
- Editor
- Mario González
- Studio
- ICAIC
- Origin country
- Cuba
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Language
- Spanish
- TMDB
- 7.4/10 (52 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 100% Fresh
- IMDb
- 7.6/10 (1,517 votes)
Cast
Salvador Wood
Nephew
Silvia Planas
Aunt
Manuel Estanillo
Bureaucrat
Omar Alfonso
Cojimar
Gaspar De Santelices
Nephew's boss
Elsa Montero
Sabor
Luis Romay
El Zorro
Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera
Psychiatrist
Richard Suarez
Tarafa
Alicia Bustamante
Tania Alvarado
Pedro Pablo Astorga
Laura Zarrabeitia
Roberto Gacio
Rafael Sosa
Rolando Vidal
Rafael Díaz
Carlos Gargallo
Crew
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