Atilano for President () is a 1998 black comedy film directed and written by (Santiago Aguilar and Luis Guridi) which stars Manuel Manquiña alongside Ramón Barea and Laura Conejero.
A group of bankers find low-key funeral worker and conman Atilano an apt prospect for becoming President of the Government, so the interests of the Church and Big Business be safeguarded.
The film is a Shangri-La PC, DMVB Films, and Fabrica de Imagens Spanish-French-Portuguese co-production. It was shot in Madrid in 1998.
Distributed by Cine Company, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 25 September 1998.
Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be a "an energetic, Berlanga-esque take on Spanish politics âÂÂ90s style".