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The Minister's Wife (1981)

Directed by Eloy de la Iglesia

Overview

Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, and he is fired as a consequence.  The Marchioness of Montenegro is an aging aristocrat, ruined economically, but still with wealthy and influential friends. She helps Rafael finds a new job in Madrid as the gardener in the mansion of Antonio Fernández Herrador, Minister of economy in the new democratic Spanish government.

Length 101 minutes

Actors

Amparo Muñoz | Simón Andreu | María Martín | Irina Kuberskaya | Julieta Serrano | Manuel Torres | Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | José Luis Fernández 'Pirri' | Enrique San Francisco | Pastor Serrador | José Manuel Cervino | Ángel García | José Luis Alexandre | Manuel Calvo | Francisco Casares | Hans Burmann | Eloy de la Iglesia | Antonio Gamero | Gonzalo Goicoechea | Carlos Kaniowsky | Julio Ruano | Antonio Betancourt