Manuel and Clemente

Manuel and Clemente

89 mins | Comedy | May 26, 1986

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.

Manuel and Clemente

89 mins | Comedy | May 26, 1986

Manuel and Clemente
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.
Producers Javier Palmero P.C., Margen
Original title Manuel y Clemente
Directors Elena Gil Nagel, Pedro Carvajal, Javier Palmero
Writers Javier Palmero

Cast

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)