Your Excellency

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.

Cast

Cantinflas

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

Sonia Infante

Lolita

Guillermo Zetina

Lic. Don Tirso de la Pompa y Pompa, consejero

Tito Junco

General León Balarraza, agregado militar

Miguel Manzano

Don Serafín Templado, secretario

José Gálvez

Camarada Osky Popovsky, primer ministro

Víctor Alcocer

Almirante Neptuno Aguado, agregado naval

Maura Monti

Camarada Tania

Eduardo Alcaraz

Don Salustio Menchaca, embajador de Los Cocos

Fernando Wagner

Representante de Salchichonia