Love in the Time of Cholera

Year:

2007

Duration:

139 min

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Mike Newell

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2007-11-16

Filming Locations: Iglesia de San Pedro Claver, Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

Earnings

Budget: $45,000,000

Opening Weekend: $1,924,860 (USA) (18 November 2007)

Gross: $4,607,608 (USA) (20 December 2007)

Cast

Actor

Character

John Leguizamo

Giovanna Mezzogiorno

Love in the Time of Cholera

Benjamin Bratt

Dr. Juvenal Urbino

Gina Bernard Forbes

Digna Pardo

Javier Bardem

Florentino Ariza

Marcela Mar

America Vicuña

Juan Ángel

Marco Aurelio - 40's

Liliana Gonzalez

Marco Aurelio's Wife (as Liliana Alvarez Gonzalez)

Catalina Botero

Ofelia Urbino - 40's

Miguel Angel Pazos Galindo

Ofelia's Husband

Maria Cecilia Herrera

Urbino's Sweet Wife

Luis Fernando Hoyos

Urbino Urbino

Carlos Duplat

Mourner

Francisco Raul Linero

Mourner

Unax Ugalde

Florentino - Teen

Liev Schreiber

Lotario Thugut

Julieth Paola Hoyos Zuñiga

Barefoot Maid

Alicia Borrachero

Escolástica

Fernanda Montenegro

Tránsito Ariza

Gerardo Norberto Arango Echeverri

Priest

Dora Cadavid

Mother Superior

María Eugenia Arboleda

Gala Placidia

Catalina Sandino Moreno

Hildebranda

Marta Helena Sawades Rodriguez

Lotario Whore

Lisseth Janeth Figueroa Manzur

Lotario Whore

Denis Mercado Moreno

Lotario Whore

Beatriz Colombia Ospino

Aging Whore

John Álex Toro

Ricardo Lighthouse (as Jhon Alexander Toro)

Julián Díaz

Sweet Seller

Jose Luis Garcia Campos

Porter

Manuel Sarmiento

Belgian Photographer

Rodolfo Enrique Mercado Parra

Benny Centeno

Fernando Cajales

Don Leo's Clerk

Hector Elizondo

Don Leo

Luis Adolfo Tamara Cardona

First Mate's Voice

Rafael Vergara

Captain's Voice

Rubria Negrao

Rosalba (as Rúbria Negrão)

Antonio José de Lavalle Ospino

Child 7 Years Old

Oscar Ezequiel Padilla Garcia

Panic Child

Ivan Diaz Pombo

The Sailor

Noëlle Schonwald

Attractive Woman

Paola Turbay

Attractive Woman

Angie Cepeda

Widow Nazaret

Maria Alejandra Fuentes Atencia

Trolley Skinny Girl

Eliris Sierra Gomez

Thin Black Woman

Luis Fernando Gil Caldera

Paper Seller

Andrés Castañeda

Handsome Youth

Nicolas Bolaño Villamil

Baptism Priest

Samuel Aguilar

Marco Aurelio - Newborn

Maria Teresa Mateos Romero

Young Girl

Alejandra Borrero

Doña Blanca

Patricia Castañeda

Grand Lady

Laura Garcia Marulanda

Grand Lady

Rita Bendek

Grand Lady

Rosario Jaramillo

Grand Lady

Carolina Cuervo

Grand Lady Daughter (as Maria Carolina Cuervo)

Laura Harring

Sara Noriega

Alfonso Wong Mah

Wing Wu Peng

Ana Claudia Talancón

Olimpia Zuleta

Margálida Castro

Governess (as Margálida Castro Rueda)

Ena Ortega de Insignares

Woman with Transito

Marina Chirolla

Old Nurse

Miguel Canal

Boy with Cage

Horacio Tavera

Diego

Salvatore Basile

City Mayor

Adriana Cantor

Andrea Varón

Indhira Serrano

Dr. Barbara Lynch

Nohemi Millan

La Boheme Singer Female

Isaac Jos Ricardo Aldana

La Boheme Singer Male

Luis Alberto Moreno Ruiz

Hudson's Driver

Juan Antonio Restom Bitar

Florentino's Clerk

Andrés Parra

Captain Samaritano

Esteban Garcia Garzon

Young Arrested Aristocrat #1 (uncredited)

Laura Garcia

Grand Lady (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Was initially set to be filmed in Brazil because of security concerns in Colombia.

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The melody in the song "Hay Amores" (Bolero) sung by Shakira in this film is based on an anonymous traditional popular song called "La Panaderita" (The little baker woman) from the small town of Torrecilla en Cameros, La Rioja, Spain. Whether intentionally or by pure coincidence is not clear. The lyrics in Shakira's song are totally different, of course.

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Producer Scott Steindorff spent over 3 years courting Gabriel García Márquez for the rights to the book telling him that he was Florentino and wouldn't give up until he got the rights.

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Goofs

When Dr. Juvenal Urbino visits Florentino Ariza he asks him what kind of music Ariza likes. "The music of Carlos Gardel", Ariza answers. The time of the action is somewhere between 1890 and 1895. Gardel was born between (the date is not confirmed) 1883 and 1897. So, he was just a kid at that time, and he couldn't be known at all as the famous singer that died in a plane crash in Medellin (Colombia) in 1935, at the age of 48 or 52.

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The wedding of Dr. Juvenal Urbino and Fermina is a Modern Catholic Mass. Actually, during the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century a Traditional Latin Mass would had been conducted instead.

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The trip that Florentino Ariza takes upriver where he experiences his first 'tryst', prominently features a zipper being (un)zipped. Since the zipper was not invented until 1913, nor patented until 1916, this would have been some feat.

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Quotes

Ricardo Lighthouse: Why are you so successful with women?

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Florentino Ariza: Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.

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Florentino Ariza: Shoot me. There is no greater glory than to die for love.

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