Cantinflas
Mateo Melgarejo 'Mateíto'
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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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| Release Date | 1976-07-01 |
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| Runtime | 1h 49m |
| Directors | Américo Fernández, Jorge Stahl Jr., Miguel M. Delgado |
| Producer | Jacques Gelman |
| Writers | Tito Davison, Cantinflas |
