| Record Number |
675821 |
| Title |
The skin I live in [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Pyrmont, N.S.W.] : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment (Australasia), c2012. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : digital, col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Contents note |
"DVD9021." |
| Based on the novella "Mygale", by Thierry Jonquet. |
| DVD release of the 2011 motion picture with the Spanish title "La piel que habito". |
| Creation Note |
Score, Alberto Iglesias ; produced by Esther Garcia ; directed by Pedro Almodovar. |
| Performer note |
Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Antonio Banderas. |
| Summary Note |
Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice. But where will they find the human pig? |
| Target audience note |
Rating: MA 15+. |
| Language note |
In Spanish. Subtitles in English. |
| Subject |
Plastic surgeons -- Drama |
| Human experimentation in medicine -- Drama |
| Feature films. |
| Thrillers (Motion pictures). |
| Added Author |
Paredes, Marisa, 1946- |
| Banderas, Antonio |
| Almodóvar, Pedro |
| Garcâia, Esther |
| Iglesias, Alberto |
| Jonquet, Thierry |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F SKIN |
