The Minister's Wife

The Minister's Wife

1h 41m 1981 Drama, Romance Mexico, Spain
Budget: - Revenue: $477,126

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.

Director

Eloy de la Iglesia

Writer

Eloy de la Iglesia, Ángel Sastre, Raúl Alcántara, Gonzalo Goicoechea