
Death of a Bureaucrat
"It is easier to kill a bureaucrat than to kill bureaucracy."
Synopsis
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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