Jul 24, 1966
84 min
Full-HD

Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)

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.

Category

Comedy

Country

Cuba

Companies

ICAIC

Salvador Wood

Nephew

Silvia Planas

Aunt

Manuel Estanillo

Bureaucrat

Omar Alfonso

Cojimar

Gaspar De Santelices

Nephew's boss

Elsa Montero

Sabor

Luis Romay

El Zorro

Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera

Psychiatrist

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