El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba (1999)
Release Date: Jan 20, 2000 Wide
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Based on the novel of Gabriel Garcia Marquez by the same name, but set in the forties, the film is a reflection on life and its illusions by the Mexican master Arturo Ripstein. In a small coastal town in Mexico in the late 1940's, an obstinate colonel of the anticlerical Cristeros War keeps waiting for the pension that has been promised to him but never delivered. Every Friday, he goes down to the docks, dressed in his best suit in anticipation of the arrival of the letter announcing his
Jan 20, 2000 Wide
Jun 10, 2003
Cast
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Fernando Lujan
The Colonel -
Marisa Paredes
Lola -
Salma Hayek
Julia -
Rafael Inclán
Father Angel -
Ernesto Yáñez
Don Sabas -
Daniel Jiménez Cacho
Nogales -
Esteban Soberones
German -
Patricia Reyes Spíndola
Jacinta -
Odiseo Bichir
Dr. Pardo -
Julian Pastor
Lugones -
Eugenio Lobo
Alvaro -
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Foreign Titles
- No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) (DE)
- No One Writes to the Colonel (El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) (UK)
