Underplayed Gems

The Bureaucrats (1936)

The Bureaucrats poster
Original title
Messieurs les ronds de cuir
Directed by
Yves Mirande
Genre
comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The movie follows a group of office workers in a French government bureau. Their daily lives are filled with petty rivalries and absurd bureaucratic rules.

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What happens

The Bureaucrats (French: Messieurs les ronds de cuir) is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Yves Mirande and starring Lucien Baroux, Pierre Larquey and Gabriel Signoret. It was remade as 1959 film of the same title. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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