Golden Balls (film)

Golden Balls
	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
Release date	24 September 1993;
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.

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