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No one writes to the colonel
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Direction : Arturo Ripstein.
Screenplay: Paz Alicia Garciadiego, based on the novel by Γκαμπριέλ Γκαρσία Mάρκες / based on the novel by Gabriel Garcia M'arquez.
Cinematography : Guillermo Granillo.
Editing: Fernando Pardo.
Sound: Jorge Ruiz.
Sets: Antonio Munohierro.
Costumes: Guadalupe S'anchez.
Music: David Mansfield.
Cast: Marisa Paredes, Fernando Luj'an, Salma Hayek, Ernesto Y'anez, Rafael Incl'an, Odiseo Bichir.
Producers: Jorge S'anchez, Gerardo Herrero, Thierry Forte.
Production: Producciones Amaranta, Atletas 2, 04220 Mexico D.F., Mexico, Tornasol Films (Spain); D.M.V.B. (France).
35mm Colour 118'
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The Colonel waits. They promised him a pension, which for years has remained a promise unfulfilled. Friday after Friday, solemn and dressed in his finest suit, the Colonel waits by the dock in anticipation of the letter anouncing the arrival of his pension. Everyone in the small town knows that he waits in vain. He knows it too. And every Friday, his wife watches him at the mirror, dressing and preparing to pick up the letter that for years has eluded him. But the Colonel, eyes closed to the all too evident truth, clings to his dream, for if not, what else remains for him? There is hunger in the Colonel's house. His wife is a sack of bones consumed by asthma, and the Colonel lives ashamed of his poverty, with the shame befitting a decent man. Against wind and tide, agaist hunger, and against his wife's objections, repeated like a litany, "What will we eat?", the Colonel's reply is terse - it is a reply he has choked back for more than twenty years: "We will eat shit."
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Biography
He was born in Mexico, in 1943. In 1962 he worked as assistant director on Luis Bu~nuel's Exterminating Angel,
and in 1965 he made his own first film. He is one of the most important filmmakers in the world today.
Filmography
1965 Tiempo de morir
1969 La hora de los ninos
1972 El castillo de la pureza
1976 Lecumberri, el palacio negro
1977 El lugar sin lίmites
1978 Cadena perpetua
1985 El imperio de la fortuna
1988 Mentiras piadosas
1991 La mujer del puerto
1993 Principio y fin
1994 La reina de la noche
1995 Profundo carmesί
1997 El evangelio de las maravillas
1999 El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
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DIARY
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FILM
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THEATER
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DATE
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No one writes to the colonel
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CINE PROVLITA 3
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Wednesday 17/11 20:00
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