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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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Chris Kuykendall from Austin, TX United States
July 13, 2019
A Hugely Welcome Tomas Gutierrez Alea Offering
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
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