Movies based on Gabriel García Márquez novels
Gabriel García
Márquez (6
March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer,
screenwriter and journalist.
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Tiempo
de morir [Time to die] 1966, director:
Arturo Ripstein, writer:
Gabriel García Márquez
La viuda de Montiel
[The widow Montiel ] 1979 (based on the novel of the same name from 1962), Mexico,
Colombia, Venezuela & Cuba, director & writer: Miguel Littin
María
de mi corazón [Mary my
dearest] 1979, Mexico, director
& writer: Jaime Humberto
Hermosillo, co-writer: Gabriel García Márquez
Eréndira 1983 (based
on the novel ‘The incredible and sad tale of innocent Eréndira and her souless grandmother’
(La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela
desalmada) from 1972), France, Mexico & West Germany,
director: Ruy Guerra, writer: Gabriel García Márquez
Farewell to the ark
[さらば箱舟
/ Saraba hakobune] 1984 (based on the
novel ‘One hundred years of solitude’ from 1967), Japan,
director & writer: Shûji
Terayama
Cronaca di una morte
annunciata [Chronicle
of a death foretold]
1987 (based
on the novel of the same name from 1981), Italy, France
& Colombia, director & writer: Francesco Rosi
El verano de la señora
Forbes [The summer of Miss Forbes] 1989 (based on the novel of the same name from 1976), Cuba, Mexico & Spain, director &
writer: Jaime Humberto
Hermosillo
Un
señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes [A
very old man with enormous
wings] 1988, Cuba, Italy
& Spain, director
& co-writer: Fernando Birri, co-writer: Gabriel García Márquez
El coronel no tiene
quien le escriba [No
one writes to the colonel]
1999
(based on the eponymous novella of the
same name from 1961), Mexico, France & Spain, director: Arturo Ripstein
O veneno da madrugada [In evil hour] 2006
(based on the novel of the same name
from 1962; Spanish title: La mala hora), Brazil, Argentina & Portugal, director
& writer: Ruy Guerra
El amor
en los tiempos del cólera
[Love in the time of cholera]
2007 (based on the novel of the same name from 1985), USA, director: Mike Newell
Del amor y otros
demonios [Of
love and other demons]
2009 (based
on the novel of the same name from 1994), Costa Rica &
Columbia, director & writer: Hilda
Hidalgo
Dead man's coughing
[Kaszel umarlaka] 2009 (inspired by
the short story ‘Muerte constante más allá del amor’),
Poland, director & writer: Krzysztof
Borówka
Lecciones para un beso
2011, Columbia, director & writer: Juan Pablo
Bustamante (Gabriel
García Márquez as script doctor)
Memoria de mis putas
tristes [Memories of my melancholy whores] 2011
(based on the novel of the same name from 2004), Mexico, Spain, Denmark &
USA, director & co-writer:
Henning Carlsen
Did you know
that Gabriel García Márquez novel ‘Of love and other demons’ was adapted by Hungarian composer
Péter Eötvös to form the opera Love and other demons, premiered in 2008
at Glyndebourne
Festival?
Did you know
that in 1995, Graciela Daniele
adapted the novel ‘Cronaca di una
morte annunciata’ (Chronicle
of a death foretold) into the Tony
Award-nominated Broadway
musical
of the same name,
which she also directed and choreographed.
A Romanian short-film was made in 2007.
