Manuel y Clemente
4
89 minutes
5/26/1986
Overview
Manuel and Clemente, couple in the shower and in various scheming, try to do business with miraculous apparitions. Near the Sevillian town of El Palmar de Troya, in 1968, people begin to say that the Virgin appears and the two friends take advantage of the situation. Soon a network of economic interests and credulity is created that makes it easier for Manuel and Clemente to achieve their goal: a monumental basilica, a religious order of nuns, priests and bishops of their own, and even a pope, Gregory XVII. Satire on the curious origin of the Palmarian Catholic Church and its unique founders.
Cast List
Juan Jesús Valverde
as Manuel
Ángel de Andrés López
as Clemente
Manuel Collado
as Félix
Héctor Alterio
as Serafín
Trinidad Rugero
as Magda
Mari Paz Ballesteros
as Doña África
Concha Grégori
as Ramonina
Luis Escobar
as Cardenal
Antonio Llopis
as Camilo
María Massip
as María Martín
Luis Olmos
as Newman
Alfonso del Real
as Don Casimiro
Rosario García Ortega
as Doña Patrocinio
Pope Paul VI
as Himself (archive footage)