Film · Comedy
Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
It is easier to kill a bureaucrat than to kill bureaucracy.
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.
- Director
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Writers
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Alfredo L. Del Cueto, Ramón F. Suárez
- Country
- Cuba
- Language
- Spanish
- Release date
- July 24, 1966
- Original title
- La muerte de un burócrata
Cast
Salvador WoodNephew- Silvia PlanasAunt
- Manuel EstanilloBureaucrat
- Omar AlfonsoCojimar
- Gaspar De SantelicesNephew's boss
- Elsa MonteroSabor
- Luis RomayEl Zorro
- Carlos Ruiz de la TejeraPsychiatrist
- Richard SuarezTarafa
Alicia Bustamante- Tania Alvarado
- Pedro Pablo Astorga
- Laura Zarrabeitia
- Roberto Gacio
- Rafael Sosa
- Rolando Vidal
- Rafael Díaz
- Carlos Gargallo
- Rolando de los Reyes
- Fausto Rodríguez
