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.
Nephew
Aunt
Bureaucrat
Cojimar
Nephew's boss
Sabor
El Zorro
Psychiatrist
Tarafa
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