Your Excellency

Story

Synopsis

Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.

Director

Miguel M. Delgado

Writers

Carlos León, Cantinflas

Language

Spanish; Castilian

Country

Mexico

Release date

3 May 1967

Ensemble

Cast

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  Cantinflas

  Lopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos

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  Sonia Infante

  Lolita

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  Guillermo Zetina

  Lic. Don Tirso de la Pompa y Pompa, consejero

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  Tito Junco

  General León Balarraza, agregado militar

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  Miguel Manzano

  Don Serafín Templado, secretario

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  José Gálvez

  Camarada Osky Popovsky, primer ministro

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  Víctor Alcocer

  Almirante Neptuno Aguado, agregado naval

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  Maura Monti

  Camarada Tania

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  Eduardo Alcaraz

  Don Salustio Menchaca, embajador de Los Cocos

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  Fernando Wagner

  Representante de Salchichonia

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  Carlos Riquelme

  Presidente de la República de Pepeslavia

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  Quintín Bulnes

  Mayordomo Petrovsky