The Minister and Me
19761h 49mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Comedy
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- July 1, 1976
- Original language
- Spanish
- Spoken languages
- Spanish
- Countries
- Mexico
- Production
- Rioma Films
- Cast
- Alejandra Meyer,Chela Castro,Gastón Melo,Delia Peña Orta,Cecilia Leger,José Manuel Fregoso,Tamara Garina,Mónica Prado,Fernando Yapur,Rubén Márquezand 19 more
- Director
- Miguel M. Delgado
- Writer
- Tito Davison,Cantinflas
- Producer
- Jacques Gelman
- Cinematography
- Jorge Stahl Jr.
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0161815