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No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) is a 1999 Spanish-language film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was an international co-production between France, Spain and Mexico. It is based on the eponymous novella by Colombian author and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.
No One Writes to the Colonel: Directed by Arturo Ripstein. With Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclán. Every Friday, the Colonel heads to the dock in his suit, anticipating a pension letter that will never arrive, as everyone in town knows.
The novella is the story of an impoverished retired colonel, a veteran of the Thousand Days' War, who still hopes to receive the pension he was promised some fifteen years earlier. The colonel lives with his asthmatic wife in a small village under martial law.
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An elderly veteran (the Colonel), waits for his pension patiently, hoping it will come in each Friday's mail, even as his wife suffers from asthma, and he attends to a valuable gamecock that ...
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