The Cabinet of Doctor Larifari (German:Das Kabinett des Dr. Larifari) is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Robert Wohlmuth and starring Max Hansen, Paul Morgan and Carl Jöken. The film is a parody of the German Film industry of the era. It's title is a reference to the 1919 expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
, 1h40 Directed byMiguel M. Delgado GenresDrama, Comedy ActorsCantinflas, Ángel Garasa, Pedro Damián, Socorro Avelar Rating66% Mateo Melgarejo (played by Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.