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| Title: | El coronel no tiene quien le escriba / No one writes to the Colonel |
| Director: | Arturo Ripstein |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Deerfield Beach, FL : Maverick Latino, c2003. |
| Language: | Spanish language film with or without English subtitles
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| Notes: | Producciones Amaranta ; dirección Arturo Ripstein ; producción Jorge Sanchez. Based on the novel by Gabriel García Márquez. Credits Edicón Fernando Pardo ; dirección de fotographia, Guillermo Granillo ; music, David Mansfield. Special features: ; 5.1 surround; Interactive menu; Screen selections. Performer Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1999.
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| Plot: | In El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba the old colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not; so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has been broken still beats with vengeance.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Mexico. Colombia. Literary adaptation. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Cartas del parque / Letters from the park. |
| Director: | Tomas Gutierrez Alea. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (85 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1991, c1988. |
| Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Original story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; screenplay by Eliseo Alberto Diego, Tomas Gutierrez Alea and Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea . Videocassette release of the 1988 Spanish television (Televisión Española, TVE) motion picture. Cast: Victor Laplace, Ivonne Lopez, Miguel Paneque.
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| Plot: | Set in Matanzas, Cuba, 1913, this is the enchanting story of two young people too shy to pursue the intimacy they both seek. Each seek the services of a local poet to write love letters to each other. The poet writes the letters to make some extra money but also to unburden himself of the unbounded love he feels but for which he has no outlet. When the young woman of the couple becomes the object of his affection, he is confused and faced with a moral and emotional dilemma in this surprising and sweet romance.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Cuba. Literary adaptation. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Eréndira / Die Unglaubliche und traurige Geschichte von der unschuldigen Erendira und ihrer herzlosen Großmutter |
| Director: | Ruy Guerra |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (103 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. |
| Imprint: | Los Angeles, Calif. : Media Home Entertainment, 1985 |
| Language: | Spanish with English subtitles./
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| Notes: | Videocassette release of 1983 motion picture. Based on the short story by Gabriel García Márquez, La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada. A coproduction of France, Mexico and West Germany. Les Films du Triangle [and] Films A2. Screenplay by Gabriel García Márquez; director, Ruy Guerra; producer, Alain Queffelean; music, Maurice Lecoeur.Participants: Irene Papas, Claudia Ohana, Michel Lonsdale, Oliver Wehje, Rufus, Blanca Guerra, Ernesto Gomez Cruz.
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| Plot: | A black comedy about a wicked grandmother and her exploitation of her beautiful teenage granddaughter, Eréndira. Filmed in a surreal style similar to that found in so much of the writing of García Márquez.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. Mexico. Brazil. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Fabula de la bella palomera / The fable of the beautiful pigeon fancier. |
| Director: | Ruy Guerra |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (73 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1995, c1988. |
| Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | From the novel Amor en tiempos de colera Love in the time of cholera< I> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; screenplay by Ruy Guerra and Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; produced by Joao Alfredo Viegas ; directed by Ruy Guerra. Originally produced as Spanish television (Televisión Española, TVE) motion picture in 1988. Cinematographer, Edgar Moura. Cast: Ney Latorraca, Claudia Ohana, Tonia Carrero, Dina Sfat, Chico Diaz.
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| Plot: | Set on a panoramic Brazilian beach, this film confronts the sexual and social tensions between classes in the romantic story of a wealthy aristocrat-s obsessive desire for a married woman.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. Literary Adaptation. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Love in the time of cholera |
| Director: | Mike Newell |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (139 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Burbank, Calif. : New Line Home Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2008 |
| Language: | English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. Dialogue in English, with optional English and Spanish subtitles.
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| Notes: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 2007. Based on the novel "El amor en los tiempos del cólera" by Gabriel García Marquez. New Line Cinema presents a Stone Village Pictures production in association with Grosvenor Park Media ; produced by Scott Steindorff ; screenplay by Ronald Harwood ; directed by Mike Newell. Director of photography, Affonso Beato ; editor, Mick Audsley ; music, Antonio Pinto ; costume designer, Marit Allen ; production designer, Wolf Kroeger. Performer Benjamin Bratt, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Javier Bardem, Liev Schreiber. Includes commentary with director Mike Newell, "The making of Love in the time of cholera", deleted scenes, deleted scenes commentary, theatrical trailer.
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| Plot: | Florentino is a poetry-writing telegraph operator who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love. While Florentino's mother encourages the courtship, Fermina's father absolutely forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. When Urbino proposes, Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino decides to wait. With the help of his uncle, he amasses wealth of his own. All the while, he drifts from woman to woman, never really finding what he is looking for in a woman. After five decades of waiting, he gets a second chance to win Fermina's heart.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. Literary Adaptation. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Maria full of grace |
| Director: | Joshua Marston |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : HBO Home Video, 2004 |
| Language: | Spanish dialogue with optional English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.
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| Notes: | HBO Films presents in association with a Journeyman Pictures production in association with Tucán Producciones and Altercine ; producer, Paul Mezey ; written & directed by Joshua Marston. Director of photography, Jim Denault ; editors, Anne McCabe, Lee Percy ; music, Jacobo Lieberman, Leonardo Heiblum ; costume designers, Lauren Press, Sarah Beers ; production designers, Monica Marulanda, Debbie De Villa. Special features: Includes audio commentary with director writer Joshua Marston. Participants: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paolo Vega, Jhon Alex Toro, Guilied López, Patricia Rae.
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| Plot: | Maria, a poor Columbian teenager, is desperate to leave a soul-crushing job. She accepts an offer to transport packets of heroin - which she swallows - to the United States. The ruthless world of drug trafficking proves to be more than she bargained for.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. United States. Drug couriers. Drug traffic. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Medellin sumas y restas |
| Director: | Victor Gaviria |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; 1.85:1 wide screen; Dolby digital stereo. |
| Imprint: | Coral Gables, Fla. : Distributed by Venevision International, 2007 |
| Language: | Spanish; optional English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Originally produced in 2004 as Sumas y restas. Latino Films presenta ; en asociación con La Ducha Fría Producciones, Burn Pictures, Latin Cinema Group ; co-produccion A.T.P.I.P., SL. ; guión, Victor Gaviria, Hugo Restrepo ; co-productor, Enrique Gabriel Lipschutz ; productor, Fernando Mejias ; dirigida por Victor Gaviria. Awards Ariel Awards, Mexico: Silver Ariel: Best Latin-American Film, 2006. Cartagena Film Festival: Golden India Catalina: Best Director, Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, 2005. Lleida Latin-American Film Festival: Best Actor & ICCI Screenplay Award, 2006. Miami Latin Film Festival: Golden Egret for Best Film, 2005. Toulouse Latin America Film Festival: Grand Prix, 2005.
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| Plot: | Medellín, Colombia, 1984. Former cocaine-user Santiago is now a prosperous engineer and family man. Trying to raise money for a building project, he is introduced to Gerardo, a parking lot owner who invests in his business. Gerardo is also a dealer, with dreams of expanding his drug business to Miami, a dream that will tread on the toes of his brother-in-law, the notorious El Duende.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Milagro en Roma / Miracle in Rome. |
| Director: | Lisandro Duque Naranjo. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (76 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. |
| Imprint: | New York : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1991, c1988. |
| Language: | Spanish with English subtitles
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| Notes: | Original story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; screenplay by Lisandro Duque Naranjo and Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; produced by Santiago Llupar ; directed by Lisandro Duque Naranjo. Videocassette release of the 1988 Spanish television (Televisión Española. , TVE) motion picture. Cast: Frank Ramirez, Gerardo Arellano, Amalia Duque Garcia, Lisandro Duque and Daniel Priolett.
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| Plot: | The story of Margarito Duarte, whose 7 year-old daughter dies suddenly. Visiting her grave 12 years later, he finds his daughter-s body just as he left it. After his townspeople call the event a miracle, he tries to have his daughter made a saint, but it will take a miracle of a different order to get his wish.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Diarios de motocicleta / The motorcycle diaries |
| Director: | Walter Salles |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (127 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) |
| Imprint: | United States : Universal, Edition: Widescreen ed. 2005 |
| Language: | Spanish with optional soundtrack in French; optional subtitles in English or French.
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| Notes: | Focus Films ; produced by Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenenbaum, Karen Tenkhoff ; screenplay by Jose Rivera ; director, Walter Salles. Based on the books Notas de viaje, by Ernesto Guevara, and Con el Che por Sudamérica, by Alberto Granado. Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. Special features: Deleted scenes; the making of " The motorcycle diaries"; " A moment with Gael García Bernal"; " Toma Uno ('Take one') with Gael García Bernal"; " Music of the road : an interview with composer Gustavo Santaolalla." Participants: Gael García Bernal, Mía Maestro, Rodrigo de la Serna.
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| Plot: | An inspirational adventure, based on the true story of two young men whose thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America becomes a life-changing journey of self-discovery.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. South America. Description and travel. Guevara, Ernesto, 1928-1967. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Perder es cuestión de método |
| Director: | Sergio Cabrera |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | Coral Galbes, Fla. : Venevision International, c2005. |
| Language: | Spanish with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | deodisc release of a film originally released as a motion picture in 2004. Based on the novel Perder es Cuestión de Método by Santiago Gamboa. Tornasol Films, Latina Producciones ; un film de Sergio Cabrera. Tornasol Films, Latina Producciones ; una pelicala de Sergio Cabrera ; productores, Gerado Herrero, et al. ; director, Sergio Cabrera. Music, Xavier Capellas ; editor, Carmen Frias. Writer, Jorge Goldenberg; original music, Xavier Capellas; cinematography, Hans Burman; film editing, Carmen Frías.
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| Plot: | This film is a clever social criticism of the wide-spread corruption in Colombia. The discovery of an impaled corpse near Bogotá, makes journalist Victor Silampa and office clerk Emir Estupinán embark on a captivating and gruesome journey into the dark underbelly of this nation. With the aid of a young prostitute and the officer in charge of the case, Victor and Emir manage to discover a real estate fraud scheme that involves politicians, emerald hunters, journalists and other personalities, showing us in a mesmerizing way the reality of this country in conflict.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Qui a tiré sur mon frère? /
Who shot my brother? / Quién le disparo a mi hermano? |
| Director: | Germán Gutiérrez |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (ca. 95 min) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD; full screen; stereo 2.0. |
| Imprint: | Montréal : L'Office, 2007 |
| Language: | French. English and Spanish with optional Spanish, English or French subtitles.
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| Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Produit par Argus Films inc. en coproduction avec l'Office national du film du Canada ; scénario, Carmen Garcia et Germán Gutiérrez ; recherche et réalisation, Germán Gutiérrez en collaboration avec Carmen Garcia ; production, Carmen Garcia, Yves Bisaillon. Image, Germán Gutiérrez, Ricardo Restrepo, Juan Cantero ; montage, Jean-Marie Drot ; musique originale, Jimmy Tanaka. Participants: Narration, Germán Gutiérrez.
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| Plot: | As German Gutierrez searches for the gunmen who tried to kill his brother, he exposes the root causes of the violence in his native Colombia.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. Violence |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Rodrigo D: no future |
| Director: | Víctor Gaviria |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (91 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD (Region 1) |
| Imprint: | United States: Cinemateca . Chicago, IL : Distributed by Facets Video, 2004 |
| Language: | Spanish language with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Cinemateca-Condor Media presents ; produced by Guillermo Calle ; screenplay, Víctor Gaviria, Angela Pérez and Luis Fernando Calderón ; directed by Víctor Gaviria. Cinematographer, Rodrigo Lalinde ; editor, Alberto Restrepo ; music, Germán Arrieta. Participants: Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrian Gallego
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| Plot: | Tough and in your face, Rodrigo D reveals the brutal tale of a teenager making a goal of it in one of the world's toughest towns: Medellin, Columbia. A cast of young actors and real life street toughs - some of whom met violent deaths after the filming.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. Medellin. : Youth. Juvenile delinquents |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes / A very old man with enormous wings |
| Director: | Fernando Birri |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (90 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1991, c1988. |
| Language: | In Spanish with English subtitles
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| Notes: | Original story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; screenplay by Fernando Birri and Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; produced by Camilo Vives, Settimio Presutto, Luis Reneses ; directed by Fernando Birri. Originally produced as Spanish television motion picture in 1988. Cinematography, Raul Perez Ureta. Cast: Daisy Granados, Asdrubal Melendez, Luis Alberto Ramirez, Adolfo Llaurado, Marcia Barreto, Sylvia Planas, Fernando Birri.
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| Plot: | An old man with wide angelic wings is washed up in a storm near the seaside home of a poor couple who fish him out and place him in their chicken coop. Soon he attracts multitudes and a shrine/sideshow scene develops.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Colombia |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Sicario, assassin for hire |
| Director: | Jose Novoa |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (105 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Imprint: | [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Urban Vision Entertainment, 2003 |
| Language: | Spanish dialogue with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1994. Joel Films, en asociación con Credesca y Tango Bravo Producciones presenta una película de Jose Novoa, una producción de Elia Schneider y Jose Novoa ; producida por Elia Schneider, Jose Novoa ; dirección, Jose Novoa ; guión, David Suarez. Director of photography, Oscar Perez ; art director, Silviaines Vallejo ; music, Francisco Cabrujas. Special features: behind the scenes; theatrical trailer; photo gallery; tv spots; web link. Participants: Gledys Ibarra, Pedro Lander, Laureano Olivarez, Hernan Gil, Melissa Ponce, Nestor Teran, Francisco Hernandez, Tatiana Padron, Raimundo Rondon. Awards: International Awards: 9 best film; 3 best director; 2 best screenplay; 2 best actor; 1 best actress; 1 best editor; 1 best sound.
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| Plot: | On the streets of Colombia, a young boy named Jairo takes on a job as a hired assassin - a 'sicario.' When Jairo decides he's had enough, he soon learns that there is no such thing as an easy way out. Based on true events.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. Assassins. Street life. |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La vendedora de rosas / The rose seller |
| Director: | Víctor Gaviria |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (116 min.) ; sd., col. 4 3/4 in. DVD. (Region 1) |
| Imprint: | [Coral Gables, Fla.]. Distr’ibuido por Venevision International, 1998 |
| Language: | Spanish with optional English subtitles
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| Notes: | Videodisc release of the 1998 motion picture. Producciones Filmamento ; producción, Erwin Göggel ; dirección general, Víctor Gaviria ; guión, Víctor Gaviria, Carlos Henao, Diana Ospina ; Centauro Vista. Direction of photography, Rodrigo Lalinde ; composition and direction of music, Luis F. Franco ; editing, Víctor Gaviria, Augustin Pinto. [Sponsored by] Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección de Cinematografia, ProImagenes en Movimiento, Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano. Participants: Lady Tabares, Marta Correa, Mileider Gil, Diana Murillo, Liliana Giraldo, Yuli García.
Awards: Cannes: Selección Official ; Premio de la Garza de Oro: Mejor Director ; Latin Film Festival, Miami (1999): Mejor Actriz ; Festival de San Juan Cinemafest (1998): Mejor Largometraje de Ficción.
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| Plot: | 13 year-old Mónica and her friends live on the streets of Medellín, Colombia, surviving by selling roses to couples in nightclubs and sniffing glue to escape their desperation and loneliness. Set in the two days before Christmas, the film is a modernization of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, starring a non-professional cast of Medellín street children.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. Medellín. Street children. Narcotics and youth. Social conditions |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | Verano de la Señora Forbes / The summer of Miss Forbes. |
| Director: | Jaime Humberto Hermosillo. |
| Format: | 1 videocassette (87 min.) ; sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Fox Lorber Home Video, 1995, c1988. |
| Language: | In Spanish with English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Original story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; screenplay by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo and Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; produced by Evelio Delgado ; directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo. Originally produced as Spanish (television Televisión Española (TVE)), motion picture in 1988. Cinematographer, Rodrigo Garcia. Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Alexis Castanares, Victor Cesar Villalobos, Guadalupe Sandoval, Fernando Balzaretti and Yuriria Munguia.
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| Plot: | Tells the story of repressed desire. Miss Forbes is a governess hired to look after two boys whose parents have taken a six-week vacation. By day, she runs the household with oppressive discipline, prompting the boys to fantasize about her brutal murder. By night, she parades around the house naked and drunk.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Spain. Colombia |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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| Title: | La virgen de los sicarios / Our Lady of the Assassins. |
| Director: | Barbet Schroeder |
| Format: | 1 videodisc (101 min.) ; sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD Region 1 |
| Imprint: | Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, 2002 |
| Language: | Spanish soundtrack, English subtitles.
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| Notes: | Paramount Classics ; les Films du Losange, le Studio Canal+, Vertigo Films, Tucan Producciones con la participación de Canal+ ; producción, Barbet Schroeder, Margaret Menegoz ; guión, Fernando Vallejo ; dirección, Barbet Schroeder. Director of photography, Rodrigo Lalinde ; editor, Elsa Vásquez ; music, Jorge Arriagada. Note Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Based on the novel by Fernando Vallejo. Performer Germán Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo, Manuel Busquets.
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| Plot: | An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis.
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| Subjects: | Feature films. Colombia. Literary adaptation. Assassins. Medellín. Gay men |
| Location: | View Catalog Record |
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