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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.A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
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- 1 win & 1 nomination
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- TriviaThe girl who plays the girl n the black bikini with a hammer in the "Death to Bureaucracy" parade is Regina Amador, top model at Tropicana Club Havana, Cuba 1962-1968.
- Crazy creditsDedicated to Luis Buñuel, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Ingmar Bergman, Harold Lloyd, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles (as Orson Wells), Juan Carlos Tabio, Elia Kazan, Buster Keaton, Jean Vigo, Marilyn Monroe.
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Written by Frank Dominguez
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A surprisingly critical and hilarious vision of Havana in '66
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.
"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.
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- harkish
- May 5, 1999
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Der Tod eines Bürokraten
- Filming locations
- La Habana, Cuba(town of the action)
- Production company
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $3,323
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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By what name was Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) officially released in Canada in English?
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