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BROKEN EMBRACES
Broken Embraces
international title: Broken Embraces
original title: Los abrazos rotos
country: Spain
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
cinematography by: Rodrigo Prieto
art director: Antxón Gómez
costumes designer: Sonia Grande
production: El Deseo, Universal International Pictures (USA)
distributor: Warner Bros. Spain, Pathé (FR), Alternative Films (BE), Warner Bros/Pathe (UK), Warner Bros. Italia, Budapest Film (HU)
sales agent: Focus Features (USA)
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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.

main awards/selection
European Film Awards 2009
Best European Composer - Alberto Iglesias

Cannes 2009
Official Selection
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