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.

Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cast

Salvador Wood

Nephew

S

Silvia Planas

Aunt

M

Manuel Estanillo

Bureaucrat

O

Omar Alfonso

Cojimar

G

Gaspar De Santelices

Nephew's boss

E

Elsa Montero

Sabor

L

Luis Romay

El Zorro

C

Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera

Psychiatrist