Time to Die (1985)

Original title

Tiempo de morir

Directed by

Jorge Alí Triana

Genre

drama film

Country

Colombia

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is released from prison after serving a long sentence for a killing. He returns to his small town to find that the past is not forgotten and revenge still hangs in the air.

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What happens

A Time to Die (Spanish: Tiempo de morir), also called Time to Die, is a 1985 Colombian drama film directed by Jorge Alí Triana and starring Gustavo Angarita, María Eugenia Dávila and Sebastián Ospina. The script, written by Colombia's Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, had been shot twice before, first in 1965 by Mexican director, Arturo Ripstein and in 1982 also by Jorge Alí Triana as a TV series produced by RTI Producciones. Using the style of the Westerns, the film deals with Latin American themes of machismo, family honor and revenge. It was selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Tiempo de morir was very well received and it is considered one of the best Colombian films of the 1980s with Condores no Entierran Todos los dias and Milagro en Roma. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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