Death of a Bureaucrat
It is easier to kill a bureaucrat than to kill bureaucracy.
Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Produced by ICAIC
A darkly comic satire that uses absurdist bureaucratic nightmare logic to skewer institutional indifference and the dehumanizing machinery of state systems.
A model Cuban revolutionary tragically dies at work and, as a badge of honor, is buried with his labor card in his suit pocket. When his widow attempts to apply for his pension, the pension office demands the original labor card. Desperate, his nephew embarks on an increasingly chaotic and surreal quest through the Cuban bureaucratic system to secure permission to exhume the body, only to be met with endless forms, contradictory regulations, and apathetic officials.
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