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User Rating:
6.8/10   520 votes
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Director:
Arturo Ripstein
Contact:
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Release Date:
2 June 1999 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
Basada en la novela de Gabriel García Márquez.
Plot:
Cada viernes El Coronel se coloca el único traje que tiene y acude al muelle para aguardar la carta que anuncie la llegada de su pensión... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Best film of the year!!!! more (8 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Fernando Luján ... El coronel
Marisa Paredes ... Lola

Salma Hayek ... Julia
Rafael Inclán ... Padre Ángel
Ernesto Yáñez ... Don Sabas
Daniel Giménez Cacho ... Nogales
Esteban Soberanes ... Germán
Patricia Reyes Spíndola ... Jacinta
Odiseo Bichir ... Dr. Pardo
Julián Pastor ... Lugones
Eugenio Lobo ... Álvaro
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jacobo Atri
Enrique Castillo
Jorge Castillo ... El cartero
Juana Garza
Mercedes Gironella
Osami Kawano
Eligio Meléndez
Loló Navarro
Leticia Valenzuela
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
No One Writes to the Colonel (International: English title)
Pas de lettre pour le colonel (France)
Personne n'écrit au colonel (France)
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Runtime:
Argentina:118 min | France:118 min | Mexico:118 min | Spain:122 min
Country:
Mexico | France | Spain
Language:
Spanish
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Veracruz, Mexico
Company:
Amaranta Films more

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Best film of the year!!!!, 16 October 1999
10/10
Author: Andres Bermudez from Bogota, Colombia

This is a truly magnificent and heartwrenching film!!!! Ripstein's locations are spectacular, extremely detailed and well lit, the dialogue is extraordinarily García Márquez, no doubt about it. Fernando Luján and Marisa Paredes give us outstanding performances as the colonel and his wife.

You must see it!!!

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