This is a great black comedy! It was made by the Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea whose last film was a great satire of contemporary life in Cuba called Guantanamera (1995).
Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) reminds me of the long lines I had to stand in with my mom back in Poland during the 1980s. You couldn't really take care of business unless you had connections or gifts for any type of bureacrat even to get an appointment at the dentist. The protagonist in this film tries to avoid and even beat the system at its own game but of course as with any bureacracy there are complications...
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