Body Bureaucracy
The film focuses on a bizarre state of affairs in the northern city of Valmiera where the corpse of a man has lain for nine years because of complex and contradictory communications between the relatives and various responsible institutions. The situation could easily have come from the pen of Gogol or Kafka, but is all too real and prompts questions about the more general problem of bureaucracy in Latvia.
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Body Bureaucracy
- Overview
- Crew
Status
Released
Release Date
Nov 10, 2022
Runtime
0h 28m
Genres
Documentary
Original Title
Birokrātijas līķis
Production Companies
Documentarian, Latvijas Televizija
Director
Ivars Zviedris
Description
The film focuses on a bizarre state of affairs in the northern city of Valmiera where the corpse of a man has lain for nine years because of complex and contradictory communications between the relatives and various responsible institutions. The situation could easily have come from the pen of Gogol or Kafka, but is all too real and prompts questions about the more general problem of bureaucracy in Latvia.
