La presidenta municipal
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Fernando Cortés
| La presidenta municipal | |
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| Directed by | Fernando Cortés |
| Screenplay by | Alfredo Varela, Jr. Fernando Cortés |
| Story by | Marco Antonio Almazán |
| Produced by | Fernando de Fuentes, Jr. |
| Starring | María Elena Velasco «La India María» Adalberto Martínez "Resortes" Fernando Soto «Mantequilla» Joaquín García "Borolas" Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez Leopoldo "Polo" Ortín Rosita Bouchot Rosa Furman |
| Cinematography | Fernando Colín |
| Edited by | Sergio Soto |
| Music by | Sergio Guerrero |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Diana Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
La presidenta municipal ("The Municipal President") is a 1975 Mexican comedy film written and directed by Fernando Cortés and starring María Elena Velasco «La India María», Adalberto Martínez "Resortes", Fernando Soto «Mantequilla», Joaquín García "Borolas", Manuel "Flaco" Ibáñez, Leopoldo "Polo" Ortín, Rosita Bouchot and Rosa Furman. The film was shot at Tlayacapan, Morelos, Mexico.
In the small town of Chipitongo el Alto (in English: High Chipitongo), the political boss Don Mario N. Cruz is the only presidential (town mayor) candidate of that municipality. When the town's clumsy and blind pressman Don Casimiro Buenavista prints "María" instead of "Mario" on all the ballots, the presidential candidacy automatically reverts to María Nicolasa Cruz, an illiterate and indigenous potter. Once informed, María Nicolasa accepts her new job as municipal president of Chipitongo el Alto only to rebuke the town's corrupt secretaries. Mario Nicanor Cruz, the former candidate, plans several schemes along with lawyer Topillo in order to get rid of María.
