Alejandra Martha Guzmán Meyer
Рождение : 1937-02-27, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico
Смерть : 2007-11-07
Five stories that tell the tale of winning the lottery in Mexico and how it changes lives.
Doña Catalina
Doña Catalina
The relatives of a recently deceased rich man are after his money, but his butler is trying to stop that from happening.
A bus driver loves to seduce all the women he can find and brags about his conquests, until he finds the one woman he can't have.
A rich man hires two detectives to find a long lost relative who will inherit a fortune. He'll try to turn her into a dilettante, but is it too late to change her?
A man who has three wives has to lie about it to his in-laws.
The wife of the owner of the auto shop is a woman with many resources and, advised by a comadre, exercises total control over her husband and the workers. However, her husband manages to deceive her. One day he is discovered by his wife.
In a bachelor´s department, anything can happen. Have fun getting to know the intimacies of a single frisky. Here the pleasant and exciting surprises await.
Farm's not producing, and a rural family feel like they've exhausted their options, so they move to Mexico City.
Transit must deal with his impulse to leave the country to go to the United States in search of the famous American dream.
Slice-of-life comedy/melodrama aout life in a working-class neighborhood.
The tragic adventures of a illiterate man named "Milusos" who leaves his family & hometown to go to the big city and try to better his luck. And finds he's unprepared for what he encounters.
When he lands a job as a telephone operator, Capulina -- legendary Mexican funnyman Gaspar Henaine -- quickly discovers that he can get the best gossip in town by eavesdropping on callers' private conversations. But when he uses these juicy tidbits to help a local newspaper boost its circulation, he unleashes a firestorm of scandal that threatens to ruin him. Gilberto Martínez Solares directs this comedy.
Julia Ramírez, secretaria del licenciado
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.
It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.
Prudencia
A town confused by religion persecutes a woman who stole the braid from the statue of the Virgin.
Lila (segment "La seductora")
Anthology film: three "sophisticated" rom-com scenarios.
Two bumbling bozos with detective licenses get hoodwinked by a pair of jewel-thieves.
Clienta en cabaret (uncredited)
Aldo and his girlfriend Lucy reopen an abandoned opera house, but find out that the place is inhabited by a group of Phantoms wearing the Claude Rains 1943 Phantom of the Opera costume.
Sirvienta de Adelaida
Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
A down in his luck film director falls in love with an attractive waitress and decides to launch her as a big singing star. Once the goal is reached, the girl runs away and becomes involved with a gangster who leads her into prostitution.