109m •
1976
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.
Rioma Films •
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6.4
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6.0
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6.3
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5.5
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7.0
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6.1
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0
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5.5
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5.8
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7.0
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4.6
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3.5
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5.7
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0
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5.0
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5.8
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5.6
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5.8
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5.5
