Death of a Bureaucrat

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.

Cast

Salvador Wood

as Nephew

Silvia Planas

as Aunt

Manuel Estanillo

as Bureaucrat

Omar Alfonso

as Cojimar

Gaspar De Santelices

as Nephew's boss

Elsa Montero

as Sabor

Luis Romay

as El Zorro

Carlos Ruiz de la Tejera

as Psychiatrist

Richard Suarez

as Tarafa

Alicia Bustamante

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