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La Muerte de un Burocrata (1966) Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas
La Muerte de un Burocrata (1966) Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas


 
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In Spanish with English subtitles. Also known as Death of a Bureaucrat. Widescreen.

The Cuban Death of A Bureaucrat involves the demise of an inventor, who had developed a machine to mass-produce statuettes of Cuban hero Jose Martin. Unfortunately, the inventor is buried with his union card in his pocket. Unable to collect any pension money without that card, the widow attempts to exhume the body. Her hands tied by red tape, the widow is forced to rob her husband's grave. These morbid proceedings are treated as hilariously as any slapstick two-reeler or French bedroom farce by director Thomas Guttierez Alea. In tweaking the nose of Cuba's bollixed-up government, Alea condemned his film to the censor's scissors, though Death of a Bureaucrat was released intact outside of its own country of origin.

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4 of 5 A Hugely Welcome Tomas Gutierrez Alea Offering July 13, 2019
Reviewer: Chris Kuykendall from Austin, TX United States  
Watching this movie for only the second time, I was re-impressed by the zany bureaucratic frustrations the main character confronts. The plot resembles that of Mandabi (1968) by director Ousmane Sembene, but the Cuban movie was released two years earlier, and is more wryly nuanced and complex than the one from Senegal. Talented director Tomas Gutierrez Alea (1928-1996) was responsible also for Up to a Certain Point (1984), Letters from the Park (1989), and Guantanamera (1995). New Yorker Films issued VHSs of all four films, but was acquired by Madstone in 2002 and went out of business in 2009. It was revived in 2010 when Aladdin Distribution acquired the company and its library. Meanwhile, DVD replaced VHS, only Guantanamera saw a mainstream commercial DVD release, and since 2010 New Yorker Films has issued only a trickle of DVD movies and seems to still be sputtering. So anything Alea that MovieDetective.net issues, in the way of DVD-Rs, is and will be very welcome indeed.

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