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Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the 60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the void, the infinite void created by the incapacity…
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Glory (2016) aka Slava

Rent It Tzanko Petrov (Stefan Denolyubov) lives quietly and simply. He has a rabbit, which he is devoted to caring for. He lives in a small one-room apartment, rarely seems to eat, and sets his watch, a gift from his father to him, by calling the operator for the time. During the day, he walks the train tracks looking for loose bolts, and tries to overlook his fellow employees siphoning gas out of train cars, to be sold illegally. One day, Tzanko finds something wholly unexpected on his route along the tracks: a bag of money, lying on the tracks.…
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