No One Writes to the ColonelDirected by Arturo Ripstein
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 58 min
French release : 02/06/1999
Production year : 1999
DirectorActorsSynopsisThe Colonel waits.
They promised him a pension, which for years has remained a promise unfulfilled. Every 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. But the Colonel, eyes closed to the all too evident truth, stands by his dream – if not, what else remains for him?
There is hunger in the Colonel’s house. His wife is a sack od bones consumed by asthma, and the Colonel lives ashamed of his poverty with the shame befiting a decent man. Against wind and tide, against hunger, and against his wife’s objections, repeated like a litany "What will we eat?" the Colonel’s reply of is terse – it is a reply he has choked back for more than twenty years : "We will eat shit".
Production and distributionCo-production : DMVB Films
Foreign production company : Tornasol Films, Producciones Amaranta
Film export/Foreign Sales : World Sales Christa Saredi
French distribution : DMVB Films
Full creditsExecutive Producer : Jorge Sanchez
Line Producers : Laura Imperiale, Mariela Besuievsky
Screenwriter : Paz Alicia Garciadiego
Co-producers : Gérardo Herrero, Thierry Forte
Director of Photography : Guillermo Granillo
Sound Recordist : Jorge Ruiz
Press Attaché (film) : François Vila
Editor : Fernando Pardo
Music Composer : David Mansfield
Costume Designer : Guadalupe Sanchez
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Drama
Production language : Spanish
Nationality : Minority French (Mexico, Spain)
Production year : 1999
French release : 02/06/1999
Runtime : 1 h 58 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 95.123
Visa issue date : 04/06/1999
Approval : Yes
Production formats :
35mm
Screening format :
35mm
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : 1.85
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