Cronaca di una morte annunciata (1987)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Francesco Rosi

Writers:

Gabriel García Márquez (novel)
Tonino Guerra (writer)

Release Date:

8 May 1987 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A small village in Latin America. Santiago have been knife in the morning. It surprise nobody. The Vicario...

Plot Keywords:

Latin America | Small Village | Female Nudity | Beautiful Woman | Honor

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Rupert Everett	...	Bayardo San Roman
Ornella Muti	...	Angela Vicario
Gian Maria Volontè	...	Dr. Cristo Bedoya
Irene Papas	...	Angela's mother
Lucia Bosé	...	Placida Linero
Anthony Delon	...	Santiago Nasar
Alain Cuny	...	Widower
Sergi Mateu	...	Young Cristo Bedoya
Silverio Blasi
Carlos Miranda
Rogerio Miranda
Vicky Hernández	...	Clotilde Armenta
Leonor González
Caroline Lang	...	Margot
Carolina Rosi	...	Flora Miguel

Also Known As:

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (International: English title)
Chronique d'une mort annoncée (France)

Runtime:

Argentina:107 min | France:109 min

Country:

Colombia | France | Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

West Germany:16 (f) | Argentina:18 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-14

Filming Locations:

Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

Company:

FOCINE

Trivia:

Director Francesco Rosi was so appalled with Rupert Everett's Spanish accent that he had his voice dubbed for the final print.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Il cineasta e il labirinto (2004)

Wish I had a copy

My favorite book, brief, suspenseful, and frighteningly real in scope and character. Having recently lived through Katrina as a physician at various aid stations, rescue squads into the city, etc. it brought me back to this book and a film I saw when I was in my early teens. It speaks of the tragedy of modern life, where apathy can settle like dust and no one is responsible for their neighbor. The riverside town in the heart of Colombia, trapped in an absurd past where an unspoken code of conduct is barbarously enforced (against even the enforcers' wishes, I might add), is fleshed out masterfully. This is one remake I am desperately hoping I live to see, and one movie I wish I could see again.