| Golden Balls | |
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) DVD cover for Huevos de oro | |
| Directed by | Bigas Luna |
| Produced by | Aurelio De Laurentiis Xavier Gélin Stephane Marsil |
| Written by | Cuca Canals Bigas Luna |
| Starring | Javier Bardem Maria de Medeiros Maribel Verdú |
| Music by | Nicola Piovani |
| Cinematography | José Luis Alcaine |
| Edited by | Carmen Frías |
| Distributed by | United International Pictures |
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Running time | 95 min. |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Golden Balls (Spanish: Huevos de oro) is a 1993 Spanish film directed by Bigas Luna. It stars Javier Bardem, Maria de Medeiros, Alessandro Gassman, Maribel Verdú and Benicio del Toro.
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.
External links
- Huevos de oro at IMDb
- Golden Balls at Rotten Tomatoes
- Huevos de oro at AllMovie