The Minister And Me
– Mateo Melgarejo (played by Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") is a notary public and scribe for the illitera..
Mateo Melgarejo (played by Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") 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.
01 Jan 1977
Spanish
Miguel M. Delgado
Cantinflas (original story), Tito Davison (original story), Tito Davison (screenplay), Carlos León (additional dialogue)
Cantinflas, Chela Castro, Lucía Méndez, Ángel Garasa
A good-hearted clerk falls in grace to a minister who invites him to work for the government. His ethics on job alienates him from colleagues while making efforts to return speech to a girl.