Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis Hopper part CEO, part unelected president. He gets the best line in the film when a frowning apparatchik asks if there is any trouble. In a world where the dead have returned to life, ... the word 'trouble' loses much of its meaning.
Quotes about apparatchik (2 Quotes)
When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line.