Sobreviviré (English: ''I Will Survive'') is a 1999 comedy-drama

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directed by Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes, starring

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and

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, playing a straight woman and a gay man who fall in love. The film and especially the soundtrack was very successful in Spain.

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has a small role as an airline hostess. Writer and co-script writer Lucía Etxebarría has a cameo as herself in a

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café.

Plot

Marga (Emma Suárez), a pregnant and widowed woman, is going through a streak of bad luck. Via her friendship with Rosa (Marta Ibarra), she begins to rebuild her confidence, but faces difficulties. After beginning a relationship with Iñaqui (Juan Diego Botto), an attractive gay sculptor who is ten years younger than her, her life begins to improve. Initially friends, they develop a sexual relationship, something they both thought impossible because Iñaqui is gay.

Cast

as Marga *

as Iñaqui * Marta Ibarra as Rosa *

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as Trini *

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as Rolando *

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as José * Adrià Collado as Roberto

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* * 1999 films 1999 romantic comedy-drama films Spanish romantic comedy-drama films Gay-related films Male bisexuality in film 1990s Spanish-language films Madrid in fiction Spain in fiction Spanish LGBT-related films Films directed by Alfonso Albacete 1999 comedy films 1999 drama films 1990s Spanish films LGBT-related romantic comedy-drama films {{1990s-Spain-film-stub