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Pedro Almodóvar Caballero ( born 25 September 1949 ) is a Spanish film director , screenwriter , producer and former actor . He came to prominence as a director and screenwriter during La Movida Madrileña , a cultural renaissance that followed the death of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco . His first few films characterised the sense of sexual and political freedom of the period . In 1986 , he established his own film production company , ___MASK14___ , with his younger brother Agustín Almodóvar , responsible for producing all of his films since " Law of Desire " ( 1987 ). ___MASK38___ , officially the Kingdom of ___MASK38___ , is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by ___MASK17___ , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . A film , also called a movie , motion picture , theatrical film or photoplay , is a series of still images which , when shown on a ___MASK75___ , creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon . This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession . The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry . A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera ; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques ; by means of CGI and computer animation ; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects . La Movida Madrileña was a countercultural movement that took place mainly in ___MASK69___ during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco ' s death in 1975 . It represented the resurrection of the economy in Spain and the emergence of a new Spanish identity . Agustín Almodóvar Caballero ( born 1955 ) is a film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar . He was born in Calzada de Calatrava and obtained a degree in chemistry from the Complutense University of ___MASK69___ . He began his career in film production as a messenger in Fernando Trueba ' s film " Sé infiel y no mires con quién ". In 1986 , he and Pedro founded their own production company , ___MASK14___ S . A . Through this company he has produced all of Pedro ' s films since 1986 , and several French co - productions . He is a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain . Carmen García Maura ( born 15 September 1945 ) is a Spanish actress . In a career that has spanned six decades , Maura is best known for her collaborations with noted Spanish film directors Pedro Almodóvar and Álex de la Iglesia . Law of Desire or La ley del deseo ( in original Spanish ) is a 1987 film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar . Starring Eusebio Poncela as Pablo , Carmen Maura as Tina and Antonio Banderas as Antonio . It was the first film Almodóvar made independently with his own production company " ___MASK14___ ". José Antonio Domínguez Bandera ( born 10 August 1960 ), known professionally as Antonio Banderas , is a Spanish actor , director , singer , and producer . He began his acting career with a series of films by director Pedro Almodóvar and then appeared in high - profile Hollywood movies , especially in the 1990s , including " Assassins ", " Evita ", " Interview with the Vampire ", " Philadelphia ", " Desperado ", " The Mask of Zorro , The Expendables " and " Spy Kids ". Banderas also portrayed the voice of " Puss in Boots " in the " Shrek " sequels and " Puss in Boots " as well as the bee in the US Nasonex commercials . " Master Cat , or The Booted Cat ", commonly known in English as " Puss in Boots ", is a European literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power , wealth , and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low - born master . The oldest record of written ___MASK57___ dates from Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola , who included it in his " The Facetious Nights of Straparola " ( c . 1550  53 ) in XIV  XV . Another version was published in 1634 , by Giambattista Basile with the title " Cagliuso ". The tale was written in French at the close of the seventeenth century by Charles Perrault ( 1628  1703 ), a retired civil servant and member of the " Académie française ". The tale appeared in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript two years before its 1697 publication by Barbin in a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault called " Histoires ou contes du temps passé ". The book was an instant success and remains popular . Perrault ' s " Histoires " has had considerable impact on world culture . The original Italian title of the first edition was " Costantino Fortunato ", but was later known as " Il gatto con gli stivali " ( lit . " The cat with the boots "); the French title was " Histoires ou contes du temps passé , avec des moralités " with the subtitle " Les Contes de ma mère l ' Oye " (" Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals ", subtitled " Mother Goose Tales "). The frontispiece to the earliest English editions depicts an old woman telling tales to a group of children beneath a placard inscribed " MOTHER GOOSE ' S TALES " and is credited with launching the Mother Goose legend in the English - speaking world . " Puss in Boots " has provided inspiration for composers , choreographers , and other artists over the centuries . The cat appears in the third act " pas de caractère " of Tchaikovsky ' s ballet " The Sleeping Beauty ", for example , and makes appearances in other media , most famously the sequels to the animated film " Shrek ( film )". Puss in Boots is a popular pantomime in the UK . Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ( Spanish : Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios ) is a 1988 Spanish black comedy - drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar , starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas . The film brought Almodóvar to widespread international attention : it was nominated for the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , and won five Goya Awards including Best Film and Best Actress in a Leading Role for Maura . The actual Spanish title refers to an ataque de nervios , which is not actually well translated as `` nervous breakdown '' ( crisis nerviosa ) . Ataques de nervios are culture - bound psychological phenomena during which the individual , most often female , displays dramatic outpouring of negative emotions , bodily gestures , occasional falling to the ground , and fainting , often in response to receiving disturbing news or witnessing or participating in an upsetting event . Historically , this condition has been associated with hysteria and more recently in the scientific literature with post - traumatic stress and panic attacks . Francisco Franco Bahamonde ; ( 4 December 1892  20 November 1975 ) was a Spanish general who ruled over ___MASK38___ as a dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975 . He ruled ___MASK38___ for 36 years . Spy Kids ( stylized as SPY kids ) is a 2001 American spy adventure comedy film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez , produced by Elizabeth Avellan and Rodriguez , and starring Antonio Banderas , Carla Gugino , Alan Cumming , Teri Hatcher , Cheech Marin , Danny Trejo , Robert Patrick , Tony Shalhoub , Alexa Vega , Daryl Sabara , and ___MASK29___ . ___MASK14___ ( also known as ___MASK14___ S . A .) is a film production company owned by Spanish film producers the Almodóvar brothers ( Pedro and Agustín ). The Goya Awards , known in Spanish as los Premios Goya , are ___MASK38___ ' s main national annual film awards .