love with him. Miguel Molina as Juan: Pablo's regular lover. Aimless and unassertive, he does not love Pablo as much as Pablo loves him. For the summer, he decides to leave Madrid to join his family in the south of Spain to work in bar. Manuela Velasco as Ada: Tina's surrogate daughter. A precocious ten-year-old girl, she loves Tina who acts as her foster mother. Ada refuses to go back with her mother when she comes back to take her with her. Bibi Andersen as Ada's mother: She is a lesbian statuesque model who left Tina for a male photographer and now plans to move permanently to Milan. Fernando Guillén as the Inspector: He is a liberal, who takes an easy approach to his work in contrast to his zealot son, the detective. (played by Guillén's actual son) Fernando Guillén Cuervo as the Detective: He is an uptight conservative, eager about his job. Helga Liné as Antonio's mother: A German by birth, she is a religious fanatic and a strict, overprotective mother. She gives misleading information to the police about Laura P. Nacho Martínez as the Doctor: He takes a personal interest in Pablo and Tina's well-being and tries to help them not only medically, but also to avoid the police. Germán Cobos as Father Constantino: He was Tina's confessor in the religious school where she studied when she was a boy. He sexually abused her when she sang in the church's choir as a child. He advises Tina to forget the past. Rossy de Palma as TV Host Production Though written before Matador, Law of Desire was produced after Matador's international release. Law of Desire was shot in Madrid and Cádiz in the latter part of 1986. It was the first film that came out from El Deseo, the production company that Almodóvar formed in company with his younger brother Agustín and with which he has produced all his subsequent films. It was the experience of working with the producer of Matador that led the path to the Almodóvar brothers to become producers following the model of selling the film before its release. With my first five films I had the impression of having had five children with five different fathers and of always fighting with each one of them, since my films belonged to them, from a financial point of view, but also on an artistic level, that