Movielogr
El ministro y yo (1976)
Directed by Miguel M. Delgado
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.
Length 109 minutes
Actors
Cantinflas | Chela Castro | Lucía Méndez | Ángel Garasa | Manolita Saval | Delia Peña Orta | Alonso Castaño | Miguel Manzano | Daniel Herrera | Tamara Garina | Alejandra Meyer | Pedro de Aguillón | Gastón Melo | Mónica Prado | Héctor Suárez | José Manuel Fregoso | Manuel Alvarado | Socorro Avelar | Carmen del Valle | Rubén Márquez | Marcelo Villamil | Federico González | Rojo Grau | Cecilia Leger | Inés Murillo | Fernando Pinkus | Fernando Yapur | Pedro Damián | Raúl 'Chato' Padilla