El ministro y yo (movie)
- User score: 6.8
- Production country: Mexico
- Producer: Miguel M. Delgado
- Production companies: Rioma Films
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Release date: 7/1/1976
- Run time: 109 min.
Movie description
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.
