Year: 1983
Runtime: 90 mins
Language: Spanish
Director: Mariano Ozores Puchol
Manolo works as an electrician, plumber and bricklayer but pretends to be a senior executive so his daughter can attend an elite Madrid school. When the crisis shuts the school, she moves in with him. His friends devise schemes to make him appear as a wealthy financier. The film adapts the American comedy “A Pocketful of Miracles.”
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