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The Minister's Wife

The Minister's Wife

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 27, 1981

Runtime

1h 41m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

50%

Original Title

La mujer del ministro

Production Companies

Celtisur, Platimex

Director

Eloy de la Iglesia

Revenue

$477,126

Description

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.