Manuel and Clemente
Manuel y Clemente
The story
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 & crew
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
Paul VI
Himself (archive footage)
Javier Palmero
Director, Producer
Fernando Bauluz
Producer
Guillermo Farnos
Music
Tote Trenas
Cinematography