Death Of A Bureaucrat

When the inventor of a machine to produce busts of Cuban hero Jose Martin dies, he is hailed as a model worker and given a lavish funeral. Among the honors, he is buried with his union card, which his widow needs to collect a pension from the state. She asks her nephew to help, and he is soon entangled in a bureaucracy that won't let him obtain an exhumation permit until the body has been buried for two years. Desperate, he steals the body out of its grave, then finds he can't rebury it until he shows his exhumation permit. Full of homages to silent comedians like Laurel and Hardy and Harold Lloyd, DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT is both a classic slapstick and a sly satire ...