Manuel and Clemente ( 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.

Top Cast

Juan Jesús Valverde

Manuel

Ángel de Andrés López

Clemente

Manuel Collado

Félix

Héctor Alterio

Serafín

Trinidad Rugero

Magda

Mari Paz Ballesteros

Doña África

Concha Grégori

Ramonina

Luis Escobar

Cardenal

Antonio Llopis

Camilo

María Massip

María Martín

Luis Olmos

Newman

Alfonso del Real

Don Casimiro

Rosario García Ortega

Doña Patrocinio

Pope Paul VI

Himself (archive footage)