No One Writes to the Colonel
Synopsis
The 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".
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Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : DMVB Films
- Foreign production companies : Tornasol Films, Producciones Amaranta
- Film exports/foreign sales : Open Art Productions
- French distribution : DMVB Films
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriter : Paz Alicia Garciadiego
- Director of Photography : Guillermo Granillo
- Music Composer : David Mansfield
- Editor : Fernando Pardo
- Sound Recordist : Jorge Ruiz
- Costume designer : Guadalupe Sanchez
- Foreign producers : Jorge Sanchez, Gerardo Herrero
- Line producers : Laura Imperiale, Mariela Besuievsky
- Co-producer : Thierry Forte
- Press Attaché (film) : François Vila
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Spanish
- Coproducer countries : Mexico, Spain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Mexico, Spain, France)
- 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
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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Selections (4)
Moscow - International Film Festival
Russia, 1999
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