El destino se disculpa

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{{Infobox film

| name = El destino se disculpa

| image = El destino se disculpa.jpg

| caption = Spanish film poster

| director = José Luis Sáenz de Heredia

| producer =

| writer = José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
Wenceslao Fernández Flórez

| narrator =

| starring = Rafael Durán
María Esperanza Navarro
Fernando Fernán-Gómez
Milagros Leal
Mary Lamar
Nicolás Perchicot
Gabriel Algara

| music = Manuel Parada

| cinematography = Hans Scheib

| editing = Julio Peña

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1945|1|25|df=y}}

| runtime = 110 minutes

| country = Spain

| language = Spanish

| budget =

}}

El destino se disculpa is a 1945 Spanish comedy film directed by José Luis Sáenz de Heredia.{{Cite journal |last=Castro de Paz |first=José Luis |date=2011-01-01 |title=Sáenz de Heredia en el cine español de los años cuarenta |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/signa.vol20.2011.6269 |journal=Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica |volume=20 |doi=10.5944/signa.vol20.2011.6269 |issn=1133-3634|doi-access=free }} It is based on the novel El fantasma ('The Ghost') written by Wenceslao Fernández Flórez who co-wrote the screenplay.