Directed by:
Arturo RipsteinScreenplay:
Paz Alicia GarciadiegoCinematography:
Guillermo GranilloComposer:
David MansfieldCast:
Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Enrique Castillo, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Odiseo Bichir, Rafael Inclán, Eligio Meléndez (more)Plots(1)
The Colonel waits. They promised him a pension which for years has remained a promise unfulfilled. Friday after Friday solemn and dressed in his finest suit the Colonel waits by the dock in anticipation of the letter announcing the arrival of his pension. Everyone in the small town knows that he waits in vain. He knows it too. Every Friday his wife watches him at the mirror dressing and preparing to pick up the letter that for years has eluded him. But the Colonel eyes closed to the all too evident truth stands by his dream for if not what else remains for him? There is hunger in the Colonel's house. His wife is a sack of bones consumed by asthma and the Colonel lives ashamed of his poverty with the shame befitting a decent man. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Fernando Luján
Mexico
Best movies:
No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
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Marisa Paredes
Spain
Best movies:
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Salma Hayek
Mexico
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Daniel Giménez Cacho
Spain
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Enrique Castillo
USA
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Patricia Reyes Spíndola
Mexico
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Odiseo Bichir
Mexico
Best movies:
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No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
Rafael Inclán
Mexico
Best movies:
No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
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Fuera del cielo (2006)
Eligio Meléndez
Mexico
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Julián Pastor
Mexico
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Ernesto Yáñez
Mexico
Best movies:
El imperio de la fortuna (1986)
No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
The Beginning and the End (1993)
Leticia Valenzuela
Best movies:
Salvador (1986)
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Esteban Soberanes
Mexico
Best movies:
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No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)