Los abrazos rotos

Broken embraces
Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Country
Spain
Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Pedro Almodóvar
Cast
Penélope Cruz / Blanca Portillo / Lluís Homar / José Luis Gómez / Carlos Leal / Lola Dueñas / Ángela Molina / Rossy de Palma
Production
El Deseo
http://www.losabrazosrotos.com/
http://www.eldeseo.es

Storyline

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.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2009
Made In Spain Films Of The Year
Festival de Cannes 2009
Competition

European Film Awards (EFA) 2009
Best European Composer Award - Alberto Iglesias