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Poster for Your Excellency

Your Excellency

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1967 | 134 min | Comedy, Drama

Monday Morning Maybeearly rating

Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe

With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it
If you count yourself among politics junkies and anyone who likes comedy with a point, this one's for you. Power and ambition drive every scene. If you loved The Great Dictator or My Dinner with Andre, start here. The jokes have targets, and it hits most of them.
The mood
Provocative satire that goes after everyone.
The pace
Character-first and patient, at 2 hr 14 min.
What might put you off
  • It's in Spanish, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
  • Made in 1967: an older pace and style.
  • Skip it if you're after something serious tonight.

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.

How it earned its rating

  • CriticsNot counted

    Not enough reviews on record yet

  • AudiencesNot counted

    Not measured yet: not enough ratings

  • AwardsNot counted

    No major awards or nominations

  • Reach & staying powerBelow par

    Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release

  • Buzz & cultural impactWeak

    About 2K people sought it out in the past year, and interest is climbing

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Cast & crew

Directed by Miguel M. Delgado

  • CantinflasLopez 'Lopitos' / His Excellency the Ambassador of Los Cocos
  • Sonia InfanteLolita
  • Guillermo ZetinaLic. Don Tirso de la Pompa y Pompa, consejero
  • Tito JuncoGeneral León Balarraza, agregado militar
  • Miguel ManzanoDon Serafín Templado, secretario
  • José GálvezCamarada Osky Popovsky, primer ministro
  • Víctor AlcocerAlmirante Neptuno Aguado, agregado naval
  • Maura MontiCamarada Tania
  • Eduardo AlcarazDon Salustio Menchaca, embajador de Los Cocos
  • Fernando WagnerRepresentante de Salchichonia