Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – La muerte de un burócrata AKA Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
SYNOPSIS
A worker dies in an accident at his work and is buried with his union card, essential for the widow to receive a pension. To recover it, the family is forced to carry out a clandestine exhumation. The impediments of the bureaucracy make it impossible to bury the corpse again. The absurdity of the situation degenerates into violence.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
It is, as the title suggests, a satire on bureaucracy and red tape, but also on a lot of other sad and mediocre things which we have to put up with at times. However, I have to say that I don’t have much faith in the efficacy of satire as a “driving force of history.” When making the film we thought: we are laughing at the bureaucrats, but then the bureaucrats will come and not only will the film make them laugh, but they will laugh at themselves.
2.42GB | 1h 23m | 1920×1080 | mkv
Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles: English, German, Italian