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La muerte de un burócrata (1966)
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24 July 1966 (Cuba)
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A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. full summary | add synopsis
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A surprisingly critical and hilarious vision of Havana in '66
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Salvador Wood | ... | Nephew |
| Silvia Planas | ... | Aunt |
| Manuel Estanillo | ... | Bureaucrat |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Omar Alfonso | ... | Cojimar |
| Tania Alvarado | ||
| Pedro Pablo Astorga | ||
| Alicia Bustamante | ||
| Gaspar De Santelices | ... | Nephew's boss |
| Rafael Díaz | ||
| Roberto Gacio | ||
| Carlos Gargallo | ||
| Elsa Montero | ... | Sabor |
| Rolando de los Reyes | ||
| Fausto Rodríguez | ||
| Luis Romay | ... | El Zorro |
| Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera | ... | Psychiatrist |
| Rafael Sosa | ||
| Richard Suarez | ... | Tarafa |
| Rolando Vidal | ||
| Laura Zarrabeitia | ||
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Death of a Bureaucrat
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When lent this film by a Spanish professor, my expectations were not high -- I had no idea this film from the early years of revolutionary Cuba was by Gutierrez Alea, Tinton, the director of Strawberries and Chocalate. Now, having seen the film, I wonder how it is that such a wonderful, imaginative work is not better known. For a good laugh, this can hardly be beat.
"Death of a Bureaucrat"(Muerte de un burocrata) is the story of a body that just can't get in the ground, and the frustrations suffered by the deceased's family in trying to address this situation. With the themes of bureaucratic rigidity, death, burial and the challenges of (then) modern-day Cuban life, we see linkages to Tinton's last work, "Guantanamera". The director has played with a range of techniques borrowed from some of the greats -- we find Bunuel's dream sequences, Chaplin's battles with the machine, and Keaton's daring-do. Hopefully, with the success of Tinton's final works, some of his earlier works will come into vogue.