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Death of a Bureaucrat

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A Cuban worker dies accidentally and is buried with his union card. It soon turns out that the widow will absolutely need the card for claiming her pension. Their young nephew starts his hilarious fight against the authorities in order to disinter and rebury his uncle and retrieve the precious document.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Death of a Bureaucrat:

Silvia Planas
Manuel Estanillo
Omar Alfonso
Gaspar De Santelices
Elsa Montero
Luis Romay

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A Cuban worker dies accidentally and is buried with his union card. It soon turns out that the widow will absolutely need the card for claiming her pension. Their young nephew starts his hilarious fight against the authorities in order to disinter and rebury his uncle and retrieve the precious document.

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User Review - 10/10 by Helena MSi hubieses nacido en EEUU y trabajases en Joyigud, hubieses sido mas famoso que el spilber.
User Review - 10/10 by Willy BDefinitela my favourite Cuban movie so far! It really made me laugh and reminded me of some Bulgarian old movies I used to like... What a misfortunate young man!!!
User Review - 8/10 by Caque ADivertidisima comedia cubana, muy cercana para nosotros los venezolanos. Gutierrez Alea era definitivamente un genio. ¿Por qu{e no tenemos peliculas asi en Venezuela si la hemos pasado igual de mal?
User Review - 8/10 by M D[font=Century Gothic]"Death of a Bureaucrat" starts with the funeral of Francisco Perez(Manuel Estanillo), a sculptor of patriotic busts in Cuba who also invented a machine to mass produce them. So fondly is he remembered by his comrades as a true proletariat, that he is buried with his work card. That gesture presents a problem for his nephew Juanchin(Salvador Wood) and widow(Silvia Planas) who needs the work card if she ever wants to see any of his pension. Juanchin has no luck at the cemetary trying to exhume the body where he is told to wait two years or get a court order. However, a friendly group of workers are willing to help out. After all, what could possibly go wrong?[/font] [font=Century Gothic][/font] [font=Century Gothic]"Death of a Bureaucrat" is a wildly funny, absurd and playful movie that asks the question: how did this movie ever get made? I mean, revolutionaries are not especially known for their sense of humor. With conflicting reports on Cuban repression, it is hard to know how far somebody could go but the bureaucracy would seem to be a pretty ripe target no matter where you are. Juanchin digs a deeper hole for himself whenever he tries to circumvent the rules which is ironic because all he desperately needs is one person to act like a human being to cut through the red tape and make his life that much easier.[/font]
User Review - 6/10 by R.A. LPAN AND SCAN. Muy buena sátira. La comedia es de gran precisión. Solo al final pierde algo de ritmo. / Very good satire. The comedy has great timing. Only at the end does it lose some of its pace.
User Review - 4/10 by Alonso AI was so lukewarm about everything in the movie. Yeah, it borrows a lot of different styles from different films, which you would think would give more appreciation to the film, but the problem is that it was lacking a style of its own. I was just bored with everything. But it doesn't necessarily suck so bad that it's unwatchable. The story just gets old. A guy's Uncle is buried with his work card, so he and his Aunt are working to bury the body up, and once it's up they have to go through this crazy process to get the forms to put him back in the ground. That's a bureaucracy for you. Isn't it funny? Well, at first it is. But even at 85 minutes, the film outstays its welcome. It does my pet peeve of making things happen that wouldn't actually happen, but the filmmakers thought it would be funny. And we never really get to know anything about the lead character, except he is going through hell to get this paperwork finished. It's fantastic to see a film like this be able to be made through a strict country such as Cuba at the time. It makes sense to watch it in class during this time period and after everything we talked about, but I don't see how this is considered a classic.

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