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Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)

Poster for Death of a Bureaucrat

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

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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
  • Profile picture of Salvador Wood
    Nephew Salvador Wood
  • Profile picture of Alicia Bustamante
    Alicia Bustamante

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Keywords

  • bureaucracy
  • nightmare
  • funeral
  • cuba
  • grave
  • satire
  • social satire
  • death
  • graveyard
  • booklet
  • preserved film