The Minister and Me

Name: The Minister and Me
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 01 Jul 1976
Rating: 6.90
Cast: Cantinflas, Chela Castro, Lucía Méndez, Ángel Garasa, Manolita Saval

1976-07-01 Mexico 109 minutes.

6.90 34 votes

Comedy Drama friendship government corruption car race clerk office deaf minister secretary car accident bureaucrat ethics

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Overview

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.

Year 1976

Studio Rioma Films

Director Miguel M. Delgado

Crew Cantinflas (Story), Gloria Schoemann (Editor), Alfonso Govea (Costume Design), Miguel Ángel Madrigal (Script Supervisor), Ana Guerrero (Makeup Artist), Miguel M. Delgado (Director)

Popularity 1

Language Español