Conserje en condominio


Conserje en condominio is a 1974 Mexican comedy film directed by Miguel M. Delgado and starring Cantinflas, Claudia Islas and Raquel Olmedo.

Plot

After reading an ad in a newspaper, Úrsulo takes a job as a concierge of a luxurious apartment building inhabited by eccentric people who all turn to him to solve their various problems. But when someone in the building kidnaps an important person, Úrsulo must become an investigator and find the kidnapped and the kidnappers.

Cast

Reception

The presence of hippies in the film and Cantinflas's character clashing with them was seen by Professor Jeffrey M. Pilcher in Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity as "part of a struggle to represent Mexico's national identity," with Cantinflas's character representing the "pelado from the 1930s." Pilcher noted, however, that "although Cantinflas triumphed over the hippies on screen, many young people considered him a momiza." Both Carlos Monsiváis in Los ídolos a nado and Joanne Hershfield and David R. Maciel in Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers considered it among Cantinflas's most "sad and pathetic" films, alongside El ministro y yo.