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.

• Eloy de la IglesiaDirector
• Eloy de la IglesiaScreenplay
• Gonzalo GoicoecheaScreenplay
• Ángel SastreScreenplay
• Raúl AlcántaraScreenplay

• Amparo MuñozTeresa
• Simón AndreuMinistro Fernández Herrador
• María MartínMarquesa de Montenegro
• Irina KuberskayaMarta
• Julieta SerranoAngelina
• Manuel TorresRafael
• Pedro Armendáriz Jr.Inspector Romero
• José Luis Fernández 'Pirri'Chema
• Enrique San FranciscoTerrorista
• Pastor SerradorPadre
• José Manuel CervinoLara
• Ángel GarcíaCast