The Minister and Me
El ministro y yo
Release: 1976-07-01
·Runtime: 109m
·★ 6.9
Comedy
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Mexico
Production Companies
Rioma Films
Cast
Cantinflas
as Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
Raúl 'Chato' Padilla
as El Licenciado
Chela Castro
as Vicky
Pedro de Aguillón
as Sr. Alcalino Buenrostro
Rojo Grau
as Spindola Jr. (uncredited)
Pedro Damián
as (uncredited)
Inés Murillo
as Chonita, sirvienta (uncredited)
Ángel Garasa
as Avelino Romero 'Romeritos'
Lucía Méndez
as Barbara
Delia Peña Orta
as María
Daniel Herrera
as Huésped de Yucatán
Alejandra Meyer
as Julia Ramírez, secretaria del licenciado
Héctor Suárez
as Burócrata
Mónica Prado
as Empleada de oficina
Manolita Saval
as Estrellita
Alonso Castaño
as Don Nachito
Miguel Manzano
as Don Antonio, señor ministro
