Pain and Glory

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.

Dolor y gloria
Spain 2019
  • Czech
113 min.
12+
  • This film is available until 31. 5. 2024 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.
About

Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void created by the incapacity to keep on making films.

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Credits
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar
Cinematography: José Luis Alcaine
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Sound: Pelayo Gutiérrez, Marc Orts
Editing: Teresa Font
Production Design: Antxón Gómez
Producer: Agustín Almodóvar
Costumes: Paola Torres
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Raúl Arévalo, Asier Etxeandía, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Julieta Serrano, Julián López, Nora Navas
Awards

Cannes Film Festival

2019 – Antonio Banderas (Best Actor)

Cannes Film Festival

2019 – Alberto Iglesias (Best Composer)

European Film Awards

2019 – Antonio Banderas (European Actor)

Goya Awards

2020 – Best Film

Goya Awards

2020 – Pedro Almodóvar (Best Director)

Goya Awards

2020 – Antonio Banderas (Best Lead Actor)

Links
  • This film is available until 31. 5. 2024 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.