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La muerte de un burócrata (Death of a Bureaucrat) is a 1966 comedy film by Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea which pokes fun at the Communist bureaucracy and red tape and how it affects the lives of the common people who have to waste time and overcome hurdles just to get on with their ordinary lives.
La muerte de un burócrata (1966) es una película del género de comedia del director de cine cubano Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Es una sátira de la burocracia cubana de la época posterior a la revolución, y de lo enrevesado que puede llegar a ser conseguir cosas aparentemente sencillas.
Death of a Bureaucrat: Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. With Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo, Gaspar De Santelices. A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
- (1.5K)
- Comedy
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- 1966-07-24
It is, as the title suggests, a satire on bureaucracy and red tape, but also on a lot of other sad and mediocre things which we have to put up with at times. However, I have to say that I don’t have much faith in the efficacy of satire as a “driving force of history.”.
La muerte de un burócrata es una película dirigida por Tomás Gutiérrez Alea con Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo, Gaspar de Santelices, Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera. Año: 1966.
- Cuba
- Ramón F. Suárez (B&W)
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
in Spanish, with optional English subtitles. When a deceased factory worker is buried along with his union card, his family—in need of the document so that his widow can collect the pension she’s due—must contend with endless bureaucratic red-tape to have the body exhumed.
- 84 min
- 3.2K
- HFFNY
Oct 30, 2019 · La Muerte de un Burócrata is a 1966 comedy film by Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea which pokes fun at Communist bureaucracy and red tape and how it affects the lives of common...
- 59 sec
- 2.6K
- Havana Glasgow Film Festival
