CUBA · 1966

Death of a Bureaucrat

La muerte de un burócrata

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
bureaucracy red tape systems of control individual versus institution cuban society
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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.

Year1966
CountryCuba
DirectorTomás Gutiérrez Alea
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