Death of a Bureaucrat

Jul 24, 1966

1h 24m

★ 7.3

It is easier to kill a bureaucrat than to kill bureaucracy.

Overview

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

ICAIC

Death of a Bureaucrat Trailers

Cast

Nephew

Salvador Wood

Aunt

Silvia Planas

Bureaucrat

Manuel Estanillo

Cojimar

Omar Alfonso

Nephew's boss

Gaspar De Santelices

Sabor

Elsa Montero

El Zorro

Luis Romay

Psychiatrist

Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera

Tarafa

Richard Suarez

Alicia Bustamante

Tania Alvarado

Pedro Pablo Astorga

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