Golden Balls (film)

Last updated
Golden Balls
Huevos de oro FilmPoster.jpeg
DVD cover for Huevos de oro
Directed by Bigas Luna
Written by
  • Cuca Canals
  • Bigas Luna
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography José Luis Alcaine
Edited byCarmen Frías
Music by Nicola Piovani
Production
companies
  • LolaFilms
  • Filmauro
  • Hugo Films
  • Lumière
Distributed by United International Pictures
Release date
  • 24 September 1993 (1993-09-24)(Spain)
Running time
95 min.
Countries
  • Spain
  • Italy
  • France
Language Spanish

Golden Balls (Spanish: Huevos de oro) is a 1993 film directed by Bigas Luna which stars Javier Bardem.

Contents

Plot

Benito González is a flamboyant engineer in Melilla, with a brash and pushy personality. His dream is to build the tallest building ever in the region. After his girlfriend leaves him, he devotes himself entirely to his ambitions, deciding to let nothing get in his way. He marries the daughter of a billionaire, intending to use her father's money to realise his project. Benito waltzes his way through a career of excess, fetishes and deceptions, but the personal conflicts he unleashes ultimately send his life spiraling down to disaster.

The film makes direct and symbolic references to the work of Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

Production

Exterior filming included Benidorm, Melilla, and Miami.

Cast

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Javier Bardem</span> Spanish actor (born 1969)

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alejandro González Iñárritu</span> Mexican filmmaker

Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican filmmaker. He is primarily known for making modern psychological drama films about the human condition. His projects have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades including four Academy Awards with a Special Achievement Award, three Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Directors Guild of America Awards. His most notable films include Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003), Babel (2006), Biutiful (2010), Birdman (2014), The Revenant (2015), and Bardo (2022).

<i>Jamón jamón</i> 1992 film by Bigas Luna

Jamón jamón is a 1992 Spanish romantic tragicomedy film directed by Bigas Luna and starring Javier Bardem, Jordi Mollà and Penélope Cruz in her debut film. It centers on a young woman named Silvia (Cruz) who becomes pregnant by Jose Luis, the scion of a small but powerful underwear manufacturing empire, and the disastrous fallout of their relationship. The movie engages in word play and puns, and rhapsodises on the juxtaposition of old and new in Spain, as well as many other emotional contrasts such as erotic desire and food.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bigas Luna</span> Spanish film director

José Juan Bigas Luna was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food, something for which he admitted a strong passion. His work often explores and parodies clichés of Spanish identity, but he had an international career and has made films in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, French and English.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aitana Sánchez-Gijón</span> Spanish film actress (born 1968)

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis is a Spanish and Italian film actress.

<i>Zorros Fighting Legion</i> 1939 film by John English, William Witney

Zorro's Fighting Legion is a 1939 Republic Pictures film serial consisting of twelve chapters starring Reed Hadley as Zorro and directed by William Witney and John English. The plot revolves around his alter-ego Don Diego's fight against the evil Don Del Oro.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Blanca Portillo</span> Spanish actress

Blanca Portillo Martínez de Velasco is a Spanish film, television, and stage actress. She has also worked as theatre director and producer. She made her feature film debut in Entre rojas (1995). She became popular for her portrayal of Carlota in sitcom television series Siete vidas. Portillo is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Goya Award for Best Actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Agustín González (actor)</span> Spanish actor

Agustín González Martínez was a Spanish actor who appeared in more than 180 films, including El nido (1980), by Jaime de Armiñan; Volver a empezar (1981), by José Luis Garci; La colmena (1982), by Mario Camús; Dos mejor que uno (1984), by Ángel Llorente and Las bicicletas son para el verano (1984), by Fernando Fernán Gómez.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Juan Antonio Bardem</span> Spanish film director and screenwriter (1922–2002)

Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz was a Spanish film director and screenwriter, born in Madrid. Bardem was best known for Muerte de un ciclista (1955) which won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, and El puente (1977) which won the Golden Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1979 film Seven Days in January won the Golden Prize at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fernando León de Aranoa</span> Spanish film director and screenwriter

Fernando León de Aranoa is a Spanish screenwriter and film director.

<i>Biutiful</i> 2010 film by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Biutiful is a 2010 psychological drama film directed, produced and co-written by Alejandro González Iñárritu, and starring Javier Bardem. The project marks Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature Amores perros (2000). Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro serve as associate producers. The film follows Uxbal, a criminal and father who is diagnosed with prostate cancer and seeks to settle his affairs and responsibilities before he dies. The title is in reference to the phonetic spelling in Spanish of the English word beautiful.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vladimir Cruz</span> Cuban actor

Vladimir Cruz Marrero is a Cuban actor, screenwriter, playwright, film and theatre director. He is perhaps best known for his role in the film Strawberry and Chocolate (1994).

<i>Under the Stars</i> (2007 film) 2007 Spanish film

Under the Stars is a 2007 Spanish comedy-drama film directed and written by Félix Viscarret based on the novel by Fernando Aramburu which stars Alberto San Juan alongside Emma Suárez, Julián Villagrán, and Violeta Rodríguez.

Zacarías Martínez de la Riva is a Spanish film composer. Notable for his work in Tad, The Lost Explorer, Riva has worked on psychological thrillers, romantic comedies, dramas, documentaries, and animated films, as well as short films and television programs.

<i>Scorpion in Love</i> 2013 Spanish romantic drama film

Scorpion in Love is a 2013 Spanish romantic drama film directed by Santiago A. Zannou and starring Álex González, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Carlos Bardem, Judith Diakhate and Javier Bardem. It is based on the novel of the same name by Carlos Bardem, who also wrote the screenplay with Zannou.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Javier Bardem filmography</span>

Javier Bardem is a Spanish actor and producer who made his acting debut as a child in an episode of the Spanish television series El Pícaro (1974). Bardem made his feature film debut with a minor role in the 1990 Spanish erotic film Las edades de Lulú. The film's director Bigas Luna was impressed by Bardem, giving him his first leading role in the romantic-comedy Jamón Jamón (1992), alongside future wife Penélope Cruz. In 1993, Bardem starred in another Luna film, Huevos de Oro, and in the Vicente Aranda-directed El Amante Bilingüe. The following year he appeared in Días contados (1994) and El detective y la muerte (1994). For both films he was nominated for the San Sebastián International Film Festival Award for Best Actor.

<i>The Good Boss</i> 2021 Spanish film

The Good Boss is a 2021 Spanish comedy-drama film directed and written by Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem. A corporate satire, the plot tracks a charismatic and manipulative factory owner meddling in the lives of his employees.

Prim, el asesinato de la calle del Turco is a Spanish television film directed by Miguel Bardem recreating the magnicide of Juan Prim in 1870. It originally aired on 15 December 2014 on La 1.

Huevo is the Spanish-language translation of the word "egg", but can also be vulgarly used as a Spanish slang term for "testicle".

<i>Jumping the Fence</i> 2024 film

Jumping the Fence is a 2024 Spanish-French drama film directed by Benito Zambrano and written by Flora González Villanueva which stars Moussa Sylla, Edith Martínez-Val, Eric Nantchouang, and Nansi Nsue.

References

Citations
Bibliography