A Quack in Need

Original title: El manosanta está cargado

1987
1h 30m

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Alberto Olmedo in A Quack in Need (1987)

A jobless man will do everything he cans to obtain a job and to conquer Adriana's heart. After visiting a "pai", he decides to imitate him and begins working as a "mystic healer" called El M... Read allA jobless man will do everything he cans to obtain a job and to conquer Adriana's heart. After visiting a "pai", he decides to imitate him and begins working as a "mystic healer" called El Manosanta. Exceptional rol played by Alberto Olmedo in one of his last films.A jobless man will do everything he cans to obtain a job and to conquer Adriana's heart. After visiting a "pai", he decides to imitate him and begins working as a "mystic healer" called El Manosanta. Exceptional rol played by Alberto Olmedo in one of his last films.

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The last shot of the film shows to "El manosanta" pointing to a board announcing the upcoming sequel of this movie. The movie was never made because the death of Alberto Olmedo, who played "El manosanta".

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References He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983)

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Olmedo was a visionary

Impossible not to recognise much of the idionsincrasy of the Argentinian people in Olmedo's characthers, in addition I would say he was one of the few who actually foresaw one of the darkest periods in the recent socio-economical history of Argentina. Among "Esperando La Carroza", "La clinica del Dr. Cureta" and others of this genre, El Manosanta is a must see.

I do also believe that people tend to think Olmedo was only a public clown but his sense of humour and accuracy to represent the Argentinians to cinema was an ability shared by a very very few number of people. In that sense, I also think the posterity has misregarded him as a valid exponent of what it should have been more than a laugh about themselves.