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Released
2019 · FILM

Pain and Glory

An ailing veteran director races against time to confront the ghosts of his past and the emptiness of his present, hoping to reclaim purpose before his creative flame burns out.

Directed by
Pedro Almodovar, Manuel Calvo
Written by
Pedro Almodovar, Pablo Buratti
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
113 min
Language
ES
Drama

Synopsis

Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the later years of his career, reflects on his life, recalling his mother, his lovers, and the actors he has worked with. His memories span the 1960s in a small village in Valencia, the 1980s in Madrid, and the present day, where he grapples with a profound sense of emptiness, confronting his own mortality and the inability to continue making films. He struggles with the impossibility of separating his creative work from his personal life. For Mallo, the need to recount his past may offer a path to redemption.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 203+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Teresa FontShot by Jose Luis AlcaineScored by Alberto IglesiasDesigned by Antxon GomezSound by Pelayo GutierrezCostumes by Paola TorresStunts by Eduardo MoratillaVFX by Edgiannid Figueroa

Box Office

2019 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$37.4M

Budget$10.8M
Worldwide gross$37.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $4.6M — 12% of worldwide · International: $32.8M (88%)

Opening weekend: $153K — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $286K — 6% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

Also known as

  • Leid und Herrlichkeitde
  • Pain & Gloryen
  • Pain and Gloryen
  • Douleur et Gloirefr
  • (Bulgarian)Болка и величие
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • SpainMar 13, 2019
  • FranceMay 17, 2019
  • ItalyMay 17, 2019

Production & Distribution

Production companies
Canal+Ciné+El DeseoEl Primer DeseoGobierno de España
Distributors
Sony Pictures Releasing EspañaPathé DistributionPathé20th Century FoxCinéart
Special effectsEl Ranchito
Other companiesFilmNation Entertainment, Ad hoc studios, Amores Eternos, Ana Locking, Autos Cadenas, Bikkembergs

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