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No One Writes to the Colonel
(El coronel no tiene quien le escriba)

Screening on Film
Directed by Alile Sharon Larkin.
With Margot Saxton-Federella, Adisa Anderson.
US, 1982, 16mm, color, 51 min.
Spanish .

Ripstein assembled a storied cast led by Fernando Lujan and Marisa Peredes for Garcíadiego's lush and evocative adaptation of Gabriel Garciá Márquez’s celebrated short story. The film's complex camerawork matches the screenplay's subtle intertwining of voice and desire, fantasy and the dark reality of a retired veteran's embittered solitude and desolation.

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