Everything about my mother

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Movie
German title Everything about my mother
Original title Todo sobre mi madre
Country of production Spain / France
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1999
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
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Director Pedro Almodovar
script Pedro Almodovar
production Agustín Almodóvar ,
Michel Ruben
music Alberto Iglesias
camera Affonso Beato
cut José Salcedo
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Everything about my mother (original title: Todo sobre mi madre ) is a film by the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar . In addition to the title, parallels to Joseph L. Mankiewicz ' Alles über Eva and to John Cassavetes ' The First Performance can also be interpreted in the plot of this work . Additional borrowings from Almodóvar's role model, Douglas Sirk , can be seen in the melodramatic staging . After the presentation of the film, a play by Samuel Adamson was created in collaboration with Almodóvar, which was performed on 25 August 2007 at the Old Vic Theater in LondonPremiered. The German premiere took place on September 11, 2009 at the Vienna Volkstheater .

In 2000, the drama won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film .

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The nurse and former actress Manuela quits her job after the accidental death of her 17-year-old son Esteban, leaves Madrid and looks for the boy's father, originally also named Esteban, who has since undergone gender reassignment surgery, knows nothing about his son and calls herself Lola now. The son had previously written a script called 'Todo sobre mi madre' in which he regrets never having met his father.

In Barcelona , where Lola lives, Manuela meets Agrado, an old friend who, like Lola, is a trans woman . There she finds Huma Rojo, a lesbian actress who played a tragic role in the death of her son, because Esteban was run over by a car while hunting for her autograph. Another woman distracts her from her search: Sister María Rosa, who was impregnated by the sexually active Lola and infected with HIV . Manuela takes care of the women, takes on a job at Huma Rojo, replaced their drug-addicted lover Nina in the play A Streetcar Named Desire ( A Streetcar Named Desire ), is absorbed by the experiences of grief, friendship and love and forgets the search for Lola .

At the funeral of the deceased Rosa Manuela finally meets Lola, who she can finally tell about their son. Manuela is leaving Barcelona with her son Rosas, who has also been baptized Esteban, returning to Madrid for two years before finally traveling to Barcelona again.

Reviews

“In the usual precise way, Pedro Almodovar creates a series of three-dimensional female figures who try to get their lives under control. Compared to his earlier works, the film is staged more quietly and unspectacularly; even humor was sacrificed to the serious episodes of illness and death, love and life goals. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Awards

Pedro Almodóvar's film won over forty international festival and critic awards and was nominated for over thirty others. A selection of the film awards won:

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