Death of a Bureaucrat
7.6
1966
1 hr 24 min
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.
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- Cast：
- Salvador Wood , Alicia Bustamante
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Reviews
Simply Perfect
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How sad is this?
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Admirable film.
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At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
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