No One Writes to the Colonel(Movie, 1999)

Name: No One Writes to the Colonel
Genre: Drama
Released: 1999
Duration: T01:58:00
Rating: 2.5

Original title: "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba" (Spanish/ES)

1h 58min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 2.5/5 (with 10 votes)

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. ()

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About No One Writes to the Colonel

Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.

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Production countries: Spain, France, Mexico

Shot in: Mexico

Made by: Canal Plus, Canal+ España, Tornasol Films, Televisión Española, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía, Ventanarosa Productions, Producciones Amaranta, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad (FOPROCINE), Tabasco films, DMVB Films, Universidad Veracruzana, Lotería Nacional para la Asistencia Pública, Gardenia Producciones, Fundación del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano

Original language: Spanish (ES)

Spoken languages: Spanish (ES)

Translated into 12 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK)

Status: Released

Release date US: 06/02/1999

Cast: Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Julián Pastor, Odiseo Bichir, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Fernando Luján, Rafael Inclán, Enrique Castillo

Director: Arturo Ripstein

Screenwriter: Paz Alicia Garciadiego

Composer: David Mansfield

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Pas de lettre pour le colonel"

Keywords: pension, colonel

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