El ministro y yo
Released: July 1, 1976Runtime: 109 minLanguage: ES
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
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Cantinflas
as Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
Chela Castro
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Lucia Mendez
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Angel Garasa
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Manolita Saval
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Delia Pena Orta
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Alonso Castano
as Don Nachito
Miguel Manzano
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Daniel Chino Herrera
as Huésped de Yucatán
Raul Chato Padilla
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