Death of a Bureaucrat

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

7.3

1966

1h 24m

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.

Key Crew

Director

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Producers

Margarita Alexandre

Writers

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Alfredo L. Del Cueto

Ramón F. Suárez

Cinematography

Ramón F. Suárez

Music

Leo Brouwer

Cast (20)

Salvador Wood

Nephew

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