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BROKEN EMBRACES

by Pedro Almodóvar

synopsis

A man writes, lives and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he didn’t lose only his sight, he also lost Lena, the love of his life. This man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the film he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can’t direct films he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena.

international title: Broken Embraces
original title: Los abrazos rotos
country: Spain
sales agent: Focus Features (USA)
year: 2009
genre: fiction
directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
release date: ES 18/03/2009, BE/FR 20/05/2009, DE 06/08/2009, AT 07/08/2009, FI/SE 14/08/2009, DK 21/08/2009, NL 27/08/2009, LV/UK 28/08/2009, CZ 03/09/2009, NO 04/09/2009, HR/PT 10/09/2009, PL 25/09/2009, IT 02/10/2009, GR 08/10/2009, LT 09/10/2009, HU 15/10/2009, EE 23/10/2009, IS 06/11/2009, SK 12/11/2009, SI 26/11/2009
screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar
cast: Penélope Cruz, Blanca Portillo, Lluís Homar, José Luis Gómez, Carlos Leal, Lola Dueñas, Ángela Molina, Rossy de Palma
cinematography by: Rodrigo Prieto
art director: Antxón Gómez
costumes designer: Sonia Grande
music: Alberto Iglesias
producer: Agustín Almodóvar
production: El Deseo, Universal International Pictures (USA)
distributor: Warner Bros Entertainment Spain, Pathé (FR), Alternative Films (BE), Warner Bros/Pathe (UK), Warner Bros. Italia, Budapest Film (HU)

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