El ministro y yo
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Directed by | Miguel M. Delgado |
Written by | Tito Davison (screenplay) Carlos León (additional dialogue) |
Story by | Cantinflas (as Mario Moreno Reyes) Tito Davison |
Produced by | Jacques Gelman |
Starring | Cantinflas Angel Garasa |
Cinematography | |
Edited by | Gloria Schoemann |
Music by | |
Release date |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
Country | Mexico |
Language | Spanish |
El ministro y yo (Spanish: The Minister and I) is a 1976 Mexican film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, , Lucía Méndez and Ángel Garasa.[1] It is the last film in which Cantinflas acted alongside Garasa.
Plot[]
Mateo Melgarejo "Mateito" (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, Don Antonio (Miguel Manzano), earning an audience with him. The minister is so pleased with Mateo's honesty that he hires him to reform the bureau. Mateo also ends up making friends with the minister's sister Vicky () and the minister's daughter Bárbara (Lucía Méndez).
Mateo is initially appointed to work in the basement where the oldest archives of the offices are located, nicknamed "la ratonera" ("The Mousetrap"), alongside a kind elderly man, Avelino Romero, "Romeritos" (Ángel Garasa), but after the government official in charge of supervising the bureau (Raúl Padilla) realizes Mateo's connection with the minister, he places Mateo in charge of the bureau. However, after the minister is appointed as an ambassador overseas, Mateo is demoted again to the Mousetrap, this time alongside a younger, petulant employee (since Romeritos by then had retired). Mateo, tired of the multiple problems with his co-workers, resigns, but not before lecturing the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he returns to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
Cast[]
- Cantinflas as Mateo Melgarejo "Mateíto"
- as Vicky (as Celia Castro)
- Lucía Méndez as Bárbara
- Ángel Garasa as Avelino Romero "Romeritos"
- Manolita Saval as Estrellita
- as María (as Niña Delia de la Peña)
- as Don Nachito
- Miguel Manzano as Don Antonio, minister
- Daniel "Chino" Herrera as Guest from Yucatán
- Raúl Padilla as Licenciado (as Raul Chato Padilla)
- as Tamarita
- Alejandra Meyer as Julia Ramírez, Licenciado's secretary
- Pedro Damián (as Pedro Muñoz Romero)
- as Anita
- as Alcalino Buenrostro
- as Guest from Nuevo León
- as Office employee
- Héctor Suárez as Office employee
- Manuel Alvarado as Fat Man (uncredited)
- Socorro Avelar as Lupita (uncredited)
- as Office employee (uncredited)
- as Complaint Department employee (uncredited)
- as Spindola Jr. (uncredited)
- as Client (uncredited)
- as Chonita, maid (uncredited)
- as Office employee (uncredited)
- as Bureaucrat (uncredited)
- as Office employee (uncredited)
- as Butler (uncredited)
References[]
- ^ García Riera, p. 174
Bibliography[]
- García Riera, Emilio. Historia documental del cine mexicano: 1974–1976. Universidad de Guadalajara, 1992.
External links[]
- 1976 films
- Spanish-language films
- 1976 comedy films
- Mexican comedy films
- Mexican films
- Films directed by Miguel M. Delgado
- 1970s Mexican film stubs
- 1970s comedy film stubs