El ministro y yo (1976)

Audience Score
68
El ministro y yo
NR 1 hr 49 minJul 1st, 1976Comedy, Drama
Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo a neighborhood north of Mexico Citys 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