Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)

Original title

Cronaca di una morte annunciata

Directed by

Francesco Rosi

Genre

drama film

Country

Colombia, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 49m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 86 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small Colombian town, the community learns that a man is going to be killed and nobody tries to stop it. The film follows the events leading up to the murder and its aftermath from multiple viewpoints.

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What happens

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Italian: Cronaca di una morte annunciata, Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a 1987 drama film directed by Francesco Rosi adapted by Tonino Guerra from the eponymous novella by the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. It stars Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Anthony Delon and Gian Maria Volonté. The film premiered at Cannes film festival in May 1987. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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