Watch Full The Minister and Me (1976) : Movie Trailer 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. | ||
| Release Date | : | Jul 01, 1976 |
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| Genres | : | Comedy, Drama |
| Production Company | : | Rioma Films |
| Production Countries | : | Mexico |
| Casts | : | Cantinflas, Chela Castro, Lucía Méndez, Ángel Garasa, Manolita Saval, Delia Peña Orta, Alonso Castaño, Miguel Manzano, Daniel Herrera, Tamara Garina, Alejandra Meyer |
| Plot Keywords | : | friendship, government, corruption, car race, clerk, office, deaf, minister, secretary, car accident, bureaucrat, ethics |
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