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The Minister and Me (1976)
Genres: 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.
- Cantinflas as Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
- Chela Castro as Vicky
- Lucía Méndez as Barbara
- Ángel Garasa as Avelino Romero 'Romeritos'
- Manolita Saval as Estrellita
- Delia Peña Orta as María
- Alonso Castaño as Don Nachito
- Miguel Manzano as Don Antonio, señor ministro