The Minister's Wife (movie)
La mujer del ministro- User score: 5
- Production country: Mexico, Spain
- Producer: Eloy de la Iglesia
- Production companies: Celtisur, Platimex
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Revenue: $477,126
- Release date: 8/27/1981
- Run time: 101 min.
Movie 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.
