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Cast

Emilio Echevarría

Emilio Echevarría

El Sabio

Geraldine Chaplin

Geraldine Chaplin

Rosa Cabarcas / Brothel madam

Ángela Molina

Ángela Molina

Casilda Armenta

Olivia Molina

Olivia Molina

Casilda Armenta (young)

Dominika Paleta

Dominika Paleta

Ximena

Tara Parra

Tara Parra

Ximena (old)

Evangelina Sosa

Evangelina Sosa

Damiana / maid (young)

Evangelina Martínez

Evangelina Martínez

Damiana / maid (old)

Alejandra Barros

Alejandra Barros

Florina de Dios

Arturo Beristáin

Arturo Beristáin

Marco Tulio / Newspaper manager

Paola Medina

Paola Medina

Delgadina

Alfredo Sevilla

Alfredo Sevilla

Alfredo / Ximena's father

Crew

Henning Carlsen

Henning Carlsen

Director

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Novel

Jean-Claude Carrière

Jean-Claude Carrière

Screenplay

Henning Carlsen

Henning Carlsen

Screenplay

Alejandro Martínez

Alejandro Martínez

Director of Photography

Anders Refn

Anders Refn

Editor

Ana Medina

Ana Medina

Casting

Roberto Bonelli

Roberto Bonelli

Production Design

Francisco Blanc

Francisco Blanc

Art Direction

Joaquín de la Riva

Joaquín de la Riva

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Julieta Álvarez

Julieta Álvarez

Set Decoration

Gilda Navarro

Gilda Navarro

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores

20116.5 / 1090 min
Drama, Romance

Overview

To celebrate his 90th birthday, an old single journalist, Sabio, wants something special from Rosa Cabarcas’s brothel: an intense night of love with a virgin teenager. The madam finds him the ideal young woman, Delgadina, a factory worker, who is selling her virginity to support her family. When he sees Delgadina sleeping angelically, he loses interest in pure pleasure and falls in love with her. That love was not meant to be true, but fate changes, and that hope is born of an opportunity for unbridled love.