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| Directed by | Arturo Ripstein |
| Written by | Paz Alicia Garciadiego Gabriel García Márquez |
| Produced by | Gabriel Ripstein |
| Starring | Fernando Luján |
| Cinematography | Guillermo Granillo |
| Edited by | Fernando Pardo |
| Music by | David Mansfield |
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| Distributed by | Alta Films |
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Running time | 118 minutes |
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| Language | Spanish |
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. The film was also selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 72nd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.