Live Flesh
Produced in 1997

Film Information
Festival Edition 1998 - Edition 2
Section Panorama
Director Pedro Almodovar
Country Spain
Duration Color 35mm 100 min
Language Spanish
Category Panorama 1998
Producer El Deseo SA, Ruiz Perellois, 28028 Madrid, Spain
Screenplay Pedro Almodovar, based on the novel by Ruth Rendell
Cast Liberto Rabal (Victor), Javier Bardem (David), Francesca Neri (Elena), Angela Molina (Clara)
Genre Drama
Synopsis
Victor falls in love with the rich girl Helena. When he rings her doorbell, the junkie girl is expecting her dealer. So she lets Victor inside. Meanwhile the cop David and his suspicious elder colleague Sancho are out on the beat. They hear a shot in Helena's apartment and run in with guns drawn. In the chaos, another shot resounds. Four years later David is a renowned wheelchair basketball player and marries to Helena... Victor has been studying Bulgarian and the Bible in jail. And this is just the start of an apposite film full of ironic coincidences that are never unlikely.