Comedy · Cuba · 1966 · 1h 24m

Death of a Bureaucrat

La muerte de un burócrata

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Director
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cast
Salvador Wood as Nephew Silvia Planas as Aunt Manuel Estanillo as Bureaucrat Omar Alfonso as Cojimar Gaspar De Santelices as Nephew's boss Elsa Montero as Sabor
Crew
Ramón F. Suárez — Director of Photography Mario González — Editor Leo Brouwer — Original Music Composer Tomás Gutiérrez Alea — Screenplay Alfredo L. Del Cueto — Screenplay Ramón F. Suárez — Screenplay
Tagline

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

Synopsis

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.

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Mood & Themes
bureaucracynightmarefuneralcubagravesatiresocial satiredeathgraveyardbooklet
Key Collaborators
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Director Ramón F. Suárez Director of Photography Mario González Editor Leo Brouwer Original Music Composer Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Screenplay Alfredo L. Del Cueto Screenplay Ramón F. Suárez Screenplay Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Story Margarita Alexandre Producer Luis Márquez Production Design Elba Pérez Costume Design
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