Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: CustomFlix
• DVD Release Date: July 13, 2006
• Run Time: 52 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00067IZWW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #86,353 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel prize-winning author of such luminous novels as 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Love In The Time Of Cholera', was born in 1928 in the tiny Caribbean village of Aracataca, situated in a tropical region of northern Colombia in the home of his grandfather, a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. This is the setting for the imaginary, magical world of his writing, and the setting for this very special film...a wondrous recreation of the life and times that gave birth to his own lyrical creations...

Whether writing short stories, epic novels, non-fiction or screenplays, Gabo, as he is affectionately known, is above all a brilliant storyteller. His writing is a tribute to both the power of the imagination and the mysteries of the human heart. In Gabo's world, where flowers rain from the sky, and dictators sell the very ocean, reality is subject to emotional truths as well as physical boundaries. It is a world of great beauty and great cruelty, a world where love brings both redemption and enslavement; and a world where the lines between objective reality and dreams are hopelessly blurred. It is a world very much like our own.

This Film reveals Marquez as a skillful and spellbinding storyteller, taking us from birth ("Since I was born I had known I would be a writer.") to the turning points in his life that formed him and his body of work.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A small GGM biography on a dvd, November 25, 2008

By	Eleftheria Kama "Eleftheria Kama" (Athens, Greece) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I had partially conducted my thesis on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, so I found interesting viewing this DVD.

All viewers who have read any of GGM's masterpieces, will get the chance to listen to him talking in person about his childhood, his parents' love story, his colonel grandfather, his inspiration sources as well as his personal and political beliefs.

They will finally see how real Aracataca looks like, Cartagena de Indias, Bogota - and not only - , where GGM was raised and formed on both personal and professional level.

A very well done documentary...