Pain and Glory

7.4 2019 Pedro Almodóvar 1h 54m
Drama
Pain and Glory

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 contin

Cast

Antonio Banderas Antonio Banderas Salvador Mallo
Asier Etxeandia Asier Etxeandia Alberto Crespo
Leonardo Sbaraglia Leonardo Sbaraglia Federico Delgado
Nora Navas Nora Navas Mercedes
Julieta Serrano Julieta Serrano Old Jacinta
Penélope Cruz Penélope Cruz Jacinta
César Vicente César Vicente Eduardo
Asier Flores Asier Flores Young Salvador

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