Crime ·Drama ·Thriller · Italy · 1987 · 1h 49m

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Cronaca di una morte annunciata

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Director
Francesco Rosi
Cast
Rupert Everett as Bayardo San Roman Ornella Muti as Angela Vicario Gian Maria Volonté as Dr. Cristo Bedoya Lucia Bosè as Placida Linero Anthony Delon as Santiago Nasar Alain Cuny as El Viudo Xius
Crew
Pasqualino De Santis — Director of Photography Ruggero Mastroianni — Editor Piero Piccioni — Original Music Composer Tonino Guerra — Screenplay Francesco Rosi — Screenplay Gabriel García Márquez — Novel
Synopsis

This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.

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Mood & Themes
investigationwedding nightpublic murder
Key Collaborators
Francesco Rosi Director Pasqualino De Santis Director of Photography Ruggero Mastroianni Editor Piero Piccioni Original Music Composer Tonino Guerra Screenplay Francesco Rosi Screenplay Gabriel García Márquez Novel Yves Gasser Producer Francis von Büren Producer Andrea Crisanti Production Design Enrico Sabbatini Costume Design
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