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Released
2011 · FILM

The Skin I Live In

A renegade plastic surgeon racing to perfect an indestructible artificial skin must protect his captive test subject when a desperate criminal breaks into his isolated estate, turning his illicit experiments into a lethal showdown.

“The things the love of a madman can do...”

Directed by
Pedro Almodovar
Written by
Pedro Almodovar, Agustin Almodovar
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
120 min
Language
ES
DramaMysteryThriller

Synopsis

A skilled plastic surgeon develops a synthetic skin capable of withstanding any form of damage. His test subject is a mysterious and unpredictable woman who holds the key to his fixation.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 27

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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 Jose SalcedoShot by Jose Luis AlcaineScored by Alberto IglesiasDesigned by Antxon Gomez

Box Office

2011 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.6× 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

$33.8M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$33.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $3.2M — 9% of worldwide · International: $30.6M (91%)

Opening weekend: $223K — 7% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $308K — 10% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 6 theaters

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Also known as

  • Die Haut in der ich wohnede
  • Die Haut, in der ich wohnede
  • The Skin I Live Inen
  • La pelle che abitoit

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