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Un irreprensibile operaio cubano muore accidentalmente mentre è al lavoro. Tanto grande è stato il suo esempio, che viene seppellito insieme alla sua tessera del sindacato. Il problema è che la moglie per ottenere la pensione che le spetta deve mostrare quella tessera. La sua giovane nipote inizia così una personalissima lotta contro la burocrazia della pubblica amministrazione per riesumare il corpo e recuperare il prezioso documento.
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Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
84 min
A model Cuban revolutionary tragically dies at work and, as a badge of honor, is buried with his labor card in his suit pocket. When his widow attempts to apply for his pension, the pension office demands the original labor card. Desperate, his nephew embarks on an increasingly chaotic and surreal quest through the Cuban bureaucratic system to secure permission to exhume the body, only to be met with endless forms, contradictory regulations, and apathetic officials.