The Minister's Wife

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

Writers

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

Released

August 27, 1981

Language

Spanish