The Minister and Me

Name: The Minister and Me
Director: Miguel M. Delgado
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1976-07-01
Duration: 1 h 49 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Cantinflas, Chela Castro, Lucía Méndez, Ángel Garasa, Manolita Saval

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado

Comedy

Drama

19761h 49m6.9

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.