Release date: 07/01/1976
Genres:
Comedy, Drama
Countries:
Mexico
Rating:
6.8
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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Chela Castro
Vicky
Lucía Méndez
Barbara
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Avelino Romero 'Romeritos'
Manolita Saval
Estrellita
Delia Peña Orta
María
Alonso Castaño
Don Nachito
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Don Antonio, señor ministro
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Huésped de Yucatán
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Julia Ramírez, secretaria del licenciado
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Mónica Prado
Empleada de oficina
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Lupita (uncredited)
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Inés Murillo
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Pedro Damián
(uncredited)
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