- PEDRO ALMODOVAR Director, screenwriter, composer and actor, PEDRO ALMODOVAR is the most celebrated Spanish director since Luis Bunuel and Carlos Saura. He was born in Calzada de Calatrava, La Mancha, Spain in 1951. His family emigrated to Extremadura when he was eight years old and there he studied the elementary and superior bacalaureate, with the Salesian and the Franciscana. His bad religious ...www.sonypictures.com/classics/flower/crew/almodovar.html