A Chaste Spanish Man

A Chaste Spanish Man

1973 · 96 min · ★ 5.5 · Comedy, Drama

Don Santiago, a forty-year-old owner of a pastry shop in Madrid de los Austrias, receives surprising news: a woman, in fact his real mother, leaves him with a brothel in England.

Directed by Jaime de Armiñán · Written by Jaime de Armiñán

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