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The Minister's Wife (1981)

The Minister's Wife (1981)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1981, August 27
Directors: Eloy de la Iglesia
Countries: Spain, Mexico
Production: Celtisur, Platimex
Cast: Simón Andreu, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Manuel Torres, María Martín, Julieta Serrano, Enrique San Francisco, José Manuel Cervino, Amparo Muñoz, José Luis Fernández 'Pirri', Irina Kuberskaya, Pastor Serrador

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.

Keywords:

money infidelity terrorism politics detective investigation corruption aristocrat spain assassination