Pain and Glory
2019•R•1h 54m•7.4•Released
Drama
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Writer
Pedro Almodóvar
Budget
$11M
Revenue
$37M
Languages
Spanish
Studio
El Deseo
Cast
Antonio Banderas
Salvador Mallo
Asier Etxeandia
Alberto Crespo
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Federico Delgado
Nora Navas
Mercedes
Julieta Serrano
Old Jacinta
Penélope Cruz
Jacinta
César Vicente
Eduardo
Asier Flores
Young Salvador
Cecilia Roth
Zulema
Susi Sánchez
Pious Woman from Paterna
Raúl Arévalo
Venancio Mallo
Pedro Casablanc
Dr. A. Galindo
Julián López
Presenter
Eva Martín
Radiologist
Sara Sierra
Conchita
Production
Company
El Deseo
Company
TVE
Producer
Esther García
Producer
Agustín Almodóvar
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