Death of a Bureaucrat (1979)

Name: Death of a Bureaucrat
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1979-05-18
Duration: 1 hr 24 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas, Manuel Estanillo, Omar Alfonso, Gaspar De Santelices

"It is easier to kill a bureaucrat than to kill bureaucracy."Movie

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StarringSalvador WoodSilvia PlanasManuel Estanillo

DirectorTomás Gutiérrez Alea

NR 1 hr 24 minMay 18th, 1979Comedy

Plot

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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