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Death of a Bureaucrat (VHS, 1991)

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When a well-loved artist is accidentally killed by the machine he created to mass-produce busts of the nineteenth-century revolutionary hero José Martí, his family decides he should be buried gripping his union work permit in a symbol of his dedication to Castro's cause. Unfortunately, when his wife (Sylvia Planas) goes to receive her pension, the paperwork cannot be completed without her husband's work permit. Distraught, she enlists her nephew (Salvador Wood) to exhume the body. He follows a maddening paper trail that ends in a hilarious climax about the insanity of bureaucracy. In this early film, Alea creates a sly look at communist Cuba, a frequent subject in his oevre. Simultaneously lively and sharp, DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT employs the techniques of early cinematic masters like Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin, speeding up the film for comedic effect or building a simple nuisance into a calamitous whimsicality. Uncle's cumbersome machine burps and groans noisily in a mischievous animation sequence that may have influenced the loopy cut-outs of the Monty Python movies. Infinitely entertaining, The New York Times film critic Vincent Canby observed, "There are times when a lost rubber stamp is mightier than the sword."