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No One Writes to the Colonel

1999 · 2 h 2 min
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Drama

Cast

Cast not recorded here

Plot

Every Friday, the Colonel goes to the post office hoping for the pension letter that has never come, and his wife and he suffer.

Sinekatalog’s take

Arturo Ripstein's Mexican drama, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, from Gabriel García Márquez, with Fernando Luján and Marisa Paredes, is dignified and sad.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.5 / 10 (1,367 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.