No One Writes to the Colonel

1999
7.8
No One Writes to the Colonel
Poster No One Writes to the Colonel

Title: No One Writes to the Colonel

Original Title: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Year: 1999

Info

  • Country: Mexico France
  • Language: Spanish
  • Length: 122 Minutes (2 hours 2 min)
  • Budget: $3,000,000
  • Genre: Drama
  • Studios: Canal+

Plot

Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes and Salma Hayek star in 'No One Writes to the Colonel', an adaptation of the famous Gabriel García Márquez novel. The story centers in a colonel who, each Friday, dresses up with his best suit and goes down to the docks to wait for a letter, a very important one, the one that will announce that he has won a retirement pay. Everyone in town know that he will never get the letter, even his wife knows it, maybe even he knows it too, but he prefers to ignore it and keep on going to the docks each Friday.

Cast

Director:

Arturo Ripstein Arturo Ripstein

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