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La muerte de un burocrata = The death of a bureaucrat

Title
La muerte de un burocrata = The death of a bureaucrat / guión, Alfredo L. del Cueto, Ramón F. Suárez y T.G. Alea ; producción, Margarita Alexandre ; Tomás G. Alea, director.
Publication
New York : New Yorker Video, 1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás, 1928-1996.
  • Cueto, Alfredo L. del.
  • Suárez, Ramón F.
  • Alexandre, Margarita.
Description
1 videocassette (87 min.) : sound, black and white; 1/2 in.
Summary
A hilarious account of the tyranny of red tape in Cuba. The slapstick comedy begins with a sculptor who is buried with his union card. The widow needs the card to get her pension. A nephew is dispatched to get permission to exhume the body. He goes through the bewildering world of red tape. It is a social satire in the style of film comedians such as Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops, Laurel and Hardy, and Harold Lloyd.
Series Statement
Cuban cinema
Uniform Title
Cuban cinema.
Alternative Title
  • Muerte de un burocrata
  • Death of a bureaucrat
Subject
  • Motion pictures, Cuban
  • Motion pictures, Spanish
  • Foreign films
  • Comedy films
  • Feature films
  • Cuba > Politics and government > Drama
  • Cuba > Social conditions > Drama
Note
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
  • "NYV 38291"
  • Spanish dialogue; English subtitles.
Performer (note)
  • Salvador Wood, Silvia Planas and Manuel Estanilla.
Audience (note)
  • General.
System Details (note)
  • VHS format.
OCLC
  • 27795209
  • ocm27795209
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries