Death of a Bureaucrat

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

7.3/1019661h 24mReleased

Comedy

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.

Released: Jul 24, 1966

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Salvador Wood

Nephew

Silvia Planas

Aunt

Manuel Estanillo

Bureaucrat

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