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Lover of Barcelona, where he has his most loyal public, Almódovar gained his first Oscar with ´All About My Mother´, a film shot in our city
Pedro Almodóvar was born in Calzada de Calatrava (a Ciudad Real province) on 24 of September 1949. At the age of eight, his family migrated to Extremadura and there he studied high school, in the Salesian and Franciscan years, respectively. His accidental religious education made him lose faith in God. During this time, in Cáceres, he started to go the cinema compulsively.
At 16 he went to Madrid alone and penniless, but with a very firm project: study and make films.
With the impossibility of enrolling in the Escuela Oficial de Cine (Official School of Cinema), that had just closed and even though they were living through a dictatorship, Madrid assumed for the provincial adolescent the city of culture and freedom.
He fulfilled multiple and sporadic works, but he could not purchase his first camera Super 8 until getting a job in the Compañía Telefónica Nacional de España (National Telecommunications Company of Spain), where he worked for twelve years as an administration assistant.
In these years his real profession blossomed, when he was in contact with a social class that he has not yet got to know for real: the Spanish middle class of the start of the consumer epoch, with all its dramas, miseries and bravery. All learning ground for the future director.
During this era he wrote stories (some of which have been published), did theatre with the Los Goliardos group, shot films in Super 8, collaborated with diverse underground magazines and formed part of the parodic punk-rock group, Almodóvar y Mcnamara.
He had the luck of his first film premiering with the political Spanish transaction. A year and half later of risky shooting in 16mm, in 1980 he released "Pepi, Luci, Bom..." Since then, cinema filled his life. He directed and lived sufficiently to continue inventing stories that were alive.
His films are shown in cinemas all over the world and has reached international stardom with an Oscar for best foreign film from the Academy of Hollywood, for ´All About My Mother´, filmed in Barcelona.
Short fims
Dos Putas o una Historia de Amor que termina en Boda (1974) – Two Prostitutes or a Story of Love that ends in a Wedding
Film Político (1974) – Political Film
Blancor (1975) - Whiteness
La Caída de Sodoma (1975) – The Falling of Sodoma
Homenaje (1975) - Homage
El Sueño o la Estrella (1975) – The Dream or the Star
Trailer de "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1976)
Sea Caritativo (1976) – Be Charitable
Muerte en la Carretera (1976) – Death on the Road
Las tres Ventajas de Ponte (1977) – The Three Advantages of Ponte
Sexo va, Sexo viene (1977) – Sex Goes, Sex Comes
Complementos (1977) – Compliments
Salomé (1978) - Salomé
Films in Super 8
Folle…Folle…Fólleme Tim (1978) – Fuck…Fuck…Fuck me Time
Commercial Films
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras Chicas del Montón (1980) – Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls from the Heap
Laberinto de Pasiones (1982) – Labyrinth of Passions
Entre Tinieblas (1983) – Dark Habits
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (1985) – What Have I Done to Deserve This?
Matador ['85/6]
La Ley del Deseo (1986) – The Law of Desire
Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios (1987) – Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
¡Átame! (1989) – Tie me up! Tie me down!
Tacones Lejanos (1991) – High Heels
Kika (1993)
La Flor de mi Secreto (1995) – The Flower of My Secret
Todo sobre mi Madre (1998) – All About My Mother
Hable con Ella (2002) – Talk to Her
La mala educación (2004) – Bad Education
Volver (2006)
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