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It is easier to kill a bureaucrat than to kill bureaucracy. - Death of a Bureaucrat
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Title: Death of a Bureaucrat

Release Date: 24 Jul 1966

Runtime: 1h 24m

Genre: Comedy

Director: ICAIC

Production Companies: ICAIC

Overview: 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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Average Vote: 7.267 (43 votes)

Cast

  • Nephew: Salvador Wood
  • Aunt: Silvia Planas
  • Bureaucrat: Manuel Estanillo
  • Cojimar: Omar Alfonso
  • Nephew's boss: Gaspar De Santelices
  • Sabor: Elsa Montero
  • El Zorro: Luis Romay
  • Psychiatrist: Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera
  • Tarafa: Richard Suarez
  • : Alicia Bustamante
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