

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 continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
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
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Storyline
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.
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