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No One Writes to the Colonel is a film of genre Drama directed by Arturo Ripstein with Fernando Luján

No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)

No One Writes to the Colonel
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Length 1h58
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Genres Drama
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No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) is a 1999 Spanish-language film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was an international co-production between France, Spain and Mexico. It is based on the eponymous novella by Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.

Synopsis

Tous les vendredis, le colonel, vetu de son costume, attend, solennel sur le quai de la gare, la lettre qui doit lui annoncer le versement de la pension qu'on lui a promise. Tous les habitants de son village savent qu'il attend en vain. Meme sa femme en est persuadee. Mais le colonel continue a nier l'evidence. Chez lui, on meurt de faim. Sa femme est un sac d'os secouée de quintes de toux. Contre la misere, contre la faim, contre sa femme qui demande sans cesse: "Que mangerons-nous?", la reponse du colonel, ruminee depuis vingt ans est: "Nous mangerons de la merde!"

Actors

Fernando Luján

(El coronel)Salma Hayek

(Julia)Marisa Paredes

(Lola)Daniel Giménez Cacho

(Nogales)Patricia Reyes Spíndola

(Jacinta)
And :
Odiseo Bichir
Julián Pastor
Enrique Castillo
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