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No One Writes to the Colonel

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An elderly veteran (the Colonel), waits for his pension patiently, hoping it will come in each Friday's mail, even as his wife suffers from asthma, and he attends to a valuable gamecock that belonged to their son, who was killed over it. The whole world, or at least the town they live in, seems to be against this elderly couple.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 10/07/2005
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Greg Dean Schmitz Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies 11/13/2001
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Arturo Ripstein

Director

Fernando Luján

El coronel

Marisa Paredes

Lola

Salma Hayek

Julia

Rafael Inclán

Padre Ángel

Ernesto Yáñez

Don Sabas
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Synopsis An elderly veteran (the Colonel), waits for his pension patiently, hoping it will come in each Friday's mail, even as his wife suffers from asthma, and he attends to a valuable gamecock that belonged to their son, who was killed over it. The whole world, or at least the town they live in, seems to be against this elderly couple.
Director
Arturo Ripstein
Producer
Jorge Sánchez
Screenwriter
Paz Alicia Garciadiego, Gabriel García Márquez
Distributor
Fox
Production Co
Gardenia Producciones, Amaranta Films, Producciones Amaranta, Tabasco Films, Televisión Española (TVE), DMVB Films, Le Studio Canal +, Tornasol Films S.A.
Genre
Drama
Original Language
European Spanish
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 2, 1999, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 19, 2014
Runtime
1h 58m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby