Release Date

01 Jul, 1976

Runtime

01:49: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

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Actors

Cantinflas

Chela Castro

Lucía Méndez

Ángel Garasa

Manolita Saval

Delia Peña Orta

Alonso Castaño

Miguel Manzano

Daniel Herrera

Tamara Garina

Alejandra Meyer

Pedro de Aguillón

Gastón Melo

Mónica Prado

Héctor Suárez

José Manuel Fregoso

Manuel Alvarado

Socorro Avelar

Carmen del Valle

Rubén Márquez

Marcelo Villamil

Crew

Tito Davison

Salvador Lozano Mena

Armando Solís

Francisco Alcayde

Jorge Stahl Jr.

Gloria Schoemann

Ana Guerrero

Carlos León

Miguel M. Delgado

Miguel Ángel Madrigal

Cantinflas

Gustavo César Carrión

Américo Fernández

Raúl Portillo