El señor fotógrafo

El señor fotógrafo

1953100 min8.3 / 10

A lighthearted mistaken-identity comedy that uses Cold War anxieties (atomic bombs, gangsters) as a backdrop for slapstick humor and romantic entanglement.

Cantinflas, a traveling photographer, is captured by some gangsters while trying to get some flowers for his girlfriend. The gangsters have confused him with the assistant of Dr. Penongo, a scientist who has discovered the formula of a new atomic bomb. Meanwhile, Penongo has suffered a car accident and has lost his memory ...

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