Gabriel García Márquez
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Biography: Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. (Wikipedia)
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Aracataca, Colombia
Adult: No
Birthday: March 06, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 17, 2014
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Gabo & Cinema
Overview: It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-04-17
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The Padilla Affair
Overview: Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of "heartfelt self-criticism", declares himself to be a counterrevolutionary agent and throws accusations of complicity at many of his colleagues present at the event, among them, his wife. A month previously, his arrest under the accusation of endangering the security of the Cuban state had mobilised prominent intellectuals all over the world, who wrote a letter to Fidel Castro calling for the release of the poet, whose only sin had been to dissent through his poetic work. The writer's mea culpa, the recording of which is shown for the first time to the public, marks the narrative line of a story including the testimonies of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Edwards and Fidel Castro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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There Are No Thieves in This Village
Overview: When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-09-09
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Chile: A Genral Record
Overview: In 1985, Miguel Littin returned clandestinely to Chile and made this documentary divided in four parts about the political reality of the country. The parts are titled, Miguel Littin: Clandestine in Chile; The North of Chile: When I Fled to the Pampa; From the Frontier to the Interior of Chile in Flames; and Allende: the Time of History, the film features testimony from Garcia Marquez, Fidel Castro and Hortensia Bussi. Also shown is the Chile of Augusto Pinochet and Salvador Allende. When Littin returned to Spain and finished his work, Gabriel Garcia Marquez set out to write the story of the film, published under the title Clandestine in Chile: the Adventures of Miguel Littin, which quickly became a best seller.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Gabriel García Márquez: A Witch Writing
Overview: In this spellbinding biography of Nobel Prize Winning author Gabriel García Márquez, the brilliant storyteller is interviewed in depth, and takes us between the worlds of magic and reality—a sorcerer’s tale, in his own words.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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We Weren't Just Bicycle Thieves: Neorealism
Overview: This short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced - Neo Realism. Born after the Second World War, this veritable cultural revolution rapidly became a boundless source of inspiration for movie-makers throughout the entire world. Even today it influences those wanting to produce quality movies characterized and identified as Italian products able to be exported as well. It is precisely one of the masters of this unique current rich in different personalities who introduces the story - Carlo Lizzani - whose 'lesson' reconstructs the birth and development of Neorealism in Italy. It combined innovative movie techniques with a new view based on a 'true' interpretation of reality. Due to its high cultural value, this short film was given the highest reknown of the Presidency of the Republic of Italy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-01
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Entangling Shadows
Overview: Documentary that celebrates 100 years of cinema in Latin America and talks about the origins and the development of cinema in this subcontinent. Its structure is based in 12 short films directed by various Latin American directors. These are: 1) "Los inicios", Iván Trujillo 2) "Cuando comenzamos a hablar", María Novaro 3) "Jugando en serio", Jacobo Morales 4) "De cuerpo presente [Las espirales perpetuas del placer y el poder] Cine Mexicano [1931- 1997]", Marcela Fernández Violante 5) "Cuando quisimos ser adultos", Edmundo Aray and David Rodríguez 6) "Cinema Novo", Orlando Senna 7) "Memorias de una isla, Juan Carlos Tabío 8) "Un grito, 24 cuadros por segundo", Julio García-Espinosa 9) "El día de la independencia", Federico García 10) "¿Sólo las formas permanecen?", Fernando Birri and Pablo Rodríguez Gauregui 11) "Todo final es un principio", Andrés Marriquín.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1998-06-02
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Anecdotes about Fidel
Overview: 23 Anecdotes that reveal a personal side of Fidel Castro, told by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Alicia Alonso, Alice Walter, Aleida, Che Guevara's daughter, Harry Belafonte, Jessie Jackson, Hank Aaron, Comandante Almeida and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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José & Pilar
Overview: A deeply moving story about love, loss and literature, this documentary follows the days of José Saramago, the Nobel-laureate Portuguese novelist, and his wife, Pilar del Río. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his masterpiece "The Elephant's Journey", and how their love quietly sustains them throughout.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-18
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World Congress of Witchcraft 1975
Overview: The meeting in Bogota, Colombia, on Aug 27, 1975, brought together spiritualist from many cultures: Israeli mentalist Uri Geller, Italian surrealist Federica Fellini, American ESP-researcher Edgar D. Mitchell, Colombian fantasist Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Peruan/American anthropologist Carlos Castaneda.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-10-13
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The Man Who Killed John Wayne
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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Metadocumental de Mario Vargas Llosa: La vida está hecha para traicionarse
Overview: Metadocumentary by cinesmero
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2025-04-14
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