La presidenta municipal is a 1975 Mexican comedy film directed by Fernando Cortés and starring María Elena Velasco

María Elena Velasco

María Elena Velasco is a Mexican actress, film director, award-winning screenwriter, producer, and singer. She is also one of Mexico's few major female film directors...

, Adalberto Martínez "Resortes", and Pancho Córdova

Pancho Córdova

Francisco 'Pancho' Córdova was a Mexican film actor who has starred in numerous films of United States and Mexico.-External links:...

.

Synopsis

In the small town of Chipitongo el Alto (actually filmed in Tlayacapan

Tlayacapan

Tlayacapan is a town and a municipality located in the northeast part of Morelos state in central Mexico. It is located 60km east from the state capital of Cuernavaca and about 1.5 hours south of Mexico City. It is a rural area, whose way of life has not changed much over the 20th century, with 90%...

, Morelos

Morelos

Morelos officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 33 municipalities and its capital city is Cuernavaca....

) the political boss Mario N. Cruz is the only candidate for municipal presidency. The town's dim-eyed pressman, Don Casimiro Buenavista, mistakenly types the name of María N. Cruz in all of the town's voting ballots. When the lawyer Castulo Barrenillo (who is to affirm the ballot votes) reads a ballot and upon hearing it, Mario N. Cruz is enraged, but Barrenillo asks if someone knows if she really does exist. The municipal secretaries confirm it, saying that she did not vote and is a potter

Pottery

Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery . Pottery also refers to the art or craft of the potter or the manufacture of pottery...

. Then after, the municipal government heads to María's adobe

Adobe

Adobe is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material , which the builders shape into bricks using frames and dry in the sun. Adobe buildings are similar to cob and mudbrick buildings. Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for...

 house to declare to her that she is the new elected municipal president, and to advise her to modify the presidency's moral.

Cast

• María Elena Velasco
  María Elena Velasco
  María Elena Velasco is a Mexican actress, film director, award-winning screenwriter, producer, and singer. She is also one of Mexico's few major female film directors...
  
   ... La India María
  La India María
  "La India María" is a fictional character portrayed and created by actress María Elena Velasco. The character usually endures situations of racial discrimination, segregation, and corruption, although in all of these turmoils, María undoubtedly resolves them with hilarious acts of good-nature and...
  
  
• Adalberto Martínez ... Cabo Melquiades
• Pancho Córdova
  Pancho Córdova
  Francisco 'Pancho' Córdova was a Mexican film actor who has starred in numerous films of United States and Mexico.-External links:...
  
  ... Mr. Peppermint
• Rolando Barral ... Cantante de la capital
• Fernando Soto ... Don Chepito Domínguez
• Alfonso Zayas ... Secretario Rodríguez
• Joaquín García Vargas ... Secretario López
• Polo Ortín ... Licenciado Hugo T. Topillo
• Raúl Meraz ... Mario Nicanor Cruz
• José Chávez ... Pedro
• Antonio Bravo ... El cura
• Rosita Bouchot ... Chencha
• Lupita Pallás
  Lupita Pallás
  Lupita Pallás de Ortiz de Pinedo was a Mexican character actress and dancer best known for her various roles in television series in the early 1980s. She was the mother of comic actor Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo....
  
  ... Comadre Epigmenia
• Armando Arriola ... Don Casimiro Buenavista
• Ivan de Meriche ... Pablo
• Rosa Furman
  Rosa Furman
  Rosa Furman was a Mexican film actress. She played Sara's friend in Two Mules for Sister Sara .-Selected filmography:*Two Mules for Sister Sara *Profundo carmesí *Le Rapace...
  
  ... Teorogilda 'La Seca'
• Diana Ochoa ... Eufracia 'La Meca'
• Carlos Bravo y Fernández ... Director de banda musical
• Lina Montes ... Esposa del Boticario
• Queta Carrasco ... Queta, esposa de don Casimiro
• Gerardo Zepeda ... Boticario
• Manuel 'Flaco' Ibáñez ... Licenciado Cástulo Barrenillo (as Manuel Ibáñez)