Pain and Glory

Director

Pedro Almodóvar

Cast

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  Antonio Banderas

  Salvador Mallo

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  Asier Etxeandia

  Alberto Crespo

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  Leonardo Sbaraglia

  Federico Delgado

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  Nora Navas

  Mercedes

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  Julieta Serrano

  Old Jacinta

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  Penélope Cruz

  Jacinta

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  César Vicente

  Eduardo

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  Asier Flores

  Young Salvador

Plot overview

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.