Su Excelencia


Su excelencia English Your Excellency is a 1967 Mexican political satire film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Sonia Infante, and Guillermo Zetina. The film is set in a fictional dystopia where Red and Green countries are the political equivalents of the socialist and capitalist countries of the Cold War, which the film satirizes. Cantinflas portrays Lopitos, a chancellor stationed in his countrys Republica de Los Cocos embassy in the communist country of Pepeslavia who later ascends to the role of ambassador and has to decide the pivotal vote of joining the Reds or the Greens, therefore deciding the fate of one hundred nations.

Lopez known affectionately as Lopitos to the Ambassadors secretary, a bureaucrat from the Latin American Republica De Los Cocos a play on the term banana republiccitation needed who is stationed in the embassy of the Communist bloc country Pepeslavia a play on words of Joseph Stalin, the nickname for Joseph in Spanish Jos is Pepe, and the inflection slavia of Slavic peoples under the rule of the USSR.citation needed Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quickwitted, is invited because of the current ambassadors superstition aboutsitting down to a meal to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups dtat in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. ........

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