Genius espanol
September 24, 1951 Pedro Almodóvar Caballero was born in Calzada de Calatrava (Castile-La Mancha, Spain) on 24 September 1951. When little Pedro has only eight years old, his family moved from the hometown and emigrates to another Spanish province. He lives his childhood and his adolescence in Extremadura, then again moving to a larger city, Madrid, in the late 60 's. But this time Pedro doesn't let simply guided by the decisions of the family, but begins to have a clear idea about what you want to do: vent his unbridled creativity and enter into the world of cinema. Restless and unstable, at sixteen, he interrupted his studies, he began working as a clerk at a telephone company to stay (we will pass twelve years of his life), but in the meantime began to focus the filming of documentaries, movies and short films, as well as the publication of comics and stories in underground magazines; among the multiple activities of the era also participates as an actor in some shows of the company "Los Goliardos" and attends a punk rock-band (memories of this experience are found in several of his films). His first short film dates back to 1974, which will be followed by a dozen or so before his first feature film, which arrives in 1980. It's the beginning of her dazzling career, thanks to a rich and incisive. In those early years ' 80, among other things, he joined the underground movement that will result in the phenomenon of the "movida" and that will renew the artistic, musical and cultural landscape of Madrid. Compared to the production of Almodovar, those were the years in which the first film actually distributed in style: "Pepi, Luci Bom and other girls on the heap" and "labyrinth of passion". In 1983, alternating in a creative blend film, music and writing, form the duo Almodóvar-McNamara, who publishes a disk, and creates the character of Patty Diphusa, porn-star who tells his adventures in "La Luna de Madrid". Follow the movie "dark habits of sin," "what have I done to deserve this?!", "Matador" and "law of desire". In 1987 she founded her own production company with his brother Agustin. With "women on the verge of a nervous breakdown" comes the consecration at an international level, crowned with an Oscar nomination and a never-ending list of awards and accolades around the world. These are movies hits around the world: "Lègami!", "high heels", "Kika", "the flower of my secret" and "live flesh". In 2000, after the Palme d'Or in 1999 for Best Director at Cannes for "all about my mother," received the Oscar for the same film, crowning a success both critics and audiences. The latest "talk to her", "La mala educación", "Volver", "broken embraces," completing her filmography.