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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 8, 1987

Runtime

1h 49m

Genres

Crime, Drama, Thriller

User Score

73%

Original Title

Cronaca di una morte annunciata

Production Companies

Les Films Ariane, France 3 Cinéma, Italmedia Film, Soprofilms, RAI

Director

Francesco Rosi

Description

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.