El ministro y yo (1976)
El ministro y yo (1976) - Comedy Movies 109 minutes. Cantinflas El ministro y yo, O Ministro e Eu, The Minister and Me. 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. friendship, government, corruption, car race, clerk, office, deaf, minister, secretary, car accident, bureaucrat, ethics
Released: Jul 01, 1976
Runtime: 109 minutes
Stars: Cantinflas, Chela Castro, Lucía Méndez, Ángel Garasa, Manolita Saval, Delia Peña Orta
Crew: Cantinflas (Story), Miguel M. Delgado (Director), Tito Davison (Screenplay), Carlos León (Additional Dialogue), Jacques Gelman (Producer), Gustavo César Carrión (Original Music Composer)