Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
La muerte de un burócrata
It is easier to kill a bureaucrat than to kill bureaucracy.
85 min
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.
- Release date
- July 24, 1966
- Country of origin
- Cuba
- Music
- Leo Brouwer
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Trailer
Cast
- Salvador Wood as Nephew
- Silvia Planas as Aunt
- Manuel Estanillo as Bureaucrat
- Gaspar De Santelices as Nephew's boss
- Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera as Psychiatrist
- Alicia Bustamante
- Pedro Pablo Astorga
- Tania Alvarado
- Laura Zerra
- Roberto Gacio
- Carlos Monctezuma
- Orlando Nodal
Crew
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea · Director
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea · Writer
- Alfredo L. Del Cueto · Writer
- Ramón F. Suárez · Writer
- Margarita Alexandre · Producer
- Leo Brouwer · Composer
- Ramón F. Suárez · Cinematographer
- Pedro Costa · Editor
- Mario González · Editor
- Julio Montelongo · Editor
- Luis Márquez · Production designer