72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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La muerte de un burócrata

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba
Synopsis

The hero of the film is an exemplary proletarian, a very good man, Francisco J. Pérez. He has devoted his whole life to work. First, he used to carve busts and effigies. Then, once he has grown old, he devises a machine to make busts in series. Finally, he dies: his fellow workers pay him a last tribute, the boss delivers a flowery speech in front of his grave and, twenty-four hours later, his widow is taking all the necessary steos to obtain a pension for The Death of a Bureaucrat.

Director
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (Cuba)
Running Time
84 m.
Country
Cuba
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