Conserje en condominio

Conserje en condominio
Conserje en condominio
Directed by	Miguel M. Delgado
Written by	Isaac Díaz Araiza;
Produced by	Jacques Gelman
Starring	Cantinflas; Claudia Islas; Raquel Olmedo
Cinematography
Edited by	Gloria Schoemann
Music by
Release date	11 April 1974 (Mexico);
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Mexico
Language	Spanish

Conserje en condominio (in English: "Concierge in an Apartment Building") is a 1974 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Claudia Islas and Raquel Olmedo.^[1]

Plot[]

After reading an ad in a newspaper, Úrsulo (Cantinflas) takes a job as a concierge of a luxurious apartment building inhabited by eccentric people who all turn to him to solve their various problems. But when someone in the building kidnaps an important person, Úrsulo must become an investigator and find the kidnapped and the kidnappers.

Cast[]

Cantinflas as Úrsulo
Claudia Islas as Jackie
Raquel Olmedo as Clodomira
Chucho Salinas as Lic. Silverio Rojas "Rojitas" (as Jesus Salinas)
Carlos Riquelme as Administrador González
Bertha Moss as Señora Candy
as Señora Margo
as Danny
as Lisa
Eduardo Alcaraz as Lic. Rufino
as Ad Director
as Domitila
as Señorita Erica
as Melesio Martínez (as Gerardo del Castillo Jr.)
Carlos Cámara as Jorge
as Police Chief
as Nancy
as Commander
as Blonde spiritualist
Jacobo Zabludovsky as Reporter
as Spiritualist (uncredited)
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Neighbour (uncredited)
as Candy's Maid (uncredited)
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
as Spiritualist (uncredited)
(uncredited)
(uncredited)

Reception[]

The presence of hippies in the film and Cantinflas's character clashing with them was seen by Professor Jeffrey M. Pilcher in Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity as "part of a struggle to represent Mexico's national identity," with Cantinflas's character representing the "pelado from the 1930s." Pilcher noted, however, that "although Cantinflas triumphed over the hippies on screen, many young people considered him a momiza (square)."^[2] Both Carlos Monsiváis in Los ídolos a nado and Joanne Hershfield and David R. Maciel in Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers considered it among Cantinflas's most "sad and pathetic" films, alongside El ministro y yo (1976).^[3]^[4]

References[]

^ García Riera, p. 203
^ Pilcher. p. 202
^ Monsiváis, p. 101
^ Hershfield & Maciel, p. 64

Bibliography[]

García Riera, Emilio. Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1972–1973. Universidad de Guadalajara, 1992.
Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
Monsiváis, Carlos. Los ídolos a nado: Una antología global. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2011.
Hershfield, Joanne; Maciel, David R. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers. Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

External links[]

Conserje en condominio at IMDb

[1] García Riera, p. 203

[2] Pilcher. p. 202

[3] Monsiváis, p. 101

[4] Hershfield & Maciel, p. 64

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