FILMOGRAPHY COLOMBIA
The videos contained in the list are produced in Colombia or are about Colombia, it includes culture, history, arts, literature, politics, etc. For further information on a title please use our online catalog or feel free to contact Cindy Badilla-Melendez, the Media Resources Librarian or call (651) 962-5464.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: PQ8180.17.A73 Z4 1998
In this interview with Silvia Lemus, Gabriel Garcia Marquez discusses his life and work from a highly personal plane.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Magic and Reality: PQ8180.17.A73 G3 1995
Presents a literary biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize winner, through conversations with the author, his friends, and his critics. Examines the course of Garcia Marquez's life, the source of his plots and characters, and the forces that have engendered his narrative style. Traces his so-called magical realism, a blending of the real and the fantastic, to the cultural diversity of the Caribbean. Explores the history of Colombia.
La Sierra: Urban Warfare in the Barrios of Medellin, Colombia: HV6439.C72 S5 2007 DVD In Spanish with English subtitles
La Sierra is a barrio in Medellin, Colombia, the cocaine capital of the world. Here lives are defined by drugs, guns and violence. A state of perpetual urban warfare exists, with paramilitary gangs, leftist guerrillas and the US-sponsored Colombian military battling continually for power and control. This… film portrays three of La Sierra’s inhabitants: 22-year-old paramilitary leader Edison, a self-professed killer and father of six children by six women; gang soldier Jesus, ready for death at any moment; and Cielo, only 17 and already a mother with a boyfriend in prison… La Sierra reveals not only startling moments of violence and its aftermath, but also those of tenderness and faith which give the community hope for survival.
Simon Bolivar: the Great Liberator: F2235.3 .S57 2005 DVD
Discusses the life of Simon Bolivar, including family, education, military career, and his role in the freedom of the South American colonies. Also reviews the history of the colonies under Spanish rule, such as explorations, conquests, social and economic aspects as well as the culture of the people.
Simon Bolivar: the Liberator: F2235.3 .S56 2005 DVD
The duration and scope of the 19th century Latin American wars for independence dwarf all other conflicts in the New World up until that time. This program enhanced by period paintings, engravings, maps, and documents from The John Carter Brown Library's Bromsen collection and other esteemed collections of Latin Americana tells the remarkable life story of Simon Bolivar, founder of Bolivia and liberator of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Peru from Spanish colonial rule. Although his dream of Latin American unity was not realized in his lifetime, Bolivar's passion for independence lives on.
El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba: PQ8180.17.A73 C6 1999 DVD
The colonel goes each Friday to the post office to see if his long-awaited pension has come through. He knows it will not; so does his wife who is still grieving over the death of their son the year before. The colonel has a mission: to elevate the grim routine of poverty and failure to a high mass of defiance. He does that by showing that a heart that has been broken still beats with vengeance. Based on Garcia Marquez book.
Maria Full of Grace: PN1997 .M377 2004 DVD
Maria, a poor Colombian teenager, is desperate to leave a soul-crushing job. She accepts an offer to transport packets of heroin - which she swallows - to the United States. The ruthless world of drug trafficking proves to be more than she bargained for.
Los Ninos Invisibles: PN1997 .N56 2003 DVD
In a small town in Colombia in the 1950s three eight-year-olds attempt to make themselves invisible by following the directions in a book of black magic. Fifty years later one of these children tells the story of their adventures.
Oedipo Alcalde: PA4413 .O7 2007 DVD In Spanish with English subtitles
A retelling of Sophocles' ancient Greek tale, set in modern-day Columbia. A local mayor is sent to a small town in the Andes to negotiate peace among guerrilla revolutionaries, paramilitary groups, peasants, and the Colombian army. While there he begins a relationship with the widow of a war lord which inturn brings about his downfall.
Rodrigo D No Futuro: PN1997 .R63 1991
A shockingly accurate and timely portrayal of the reckless existence of youths in one of the most exciting and dangerous cities in Latin America - Medellin, Colombia, in 1988. Backed with a frenetic punk rock soundtrack, the film centers around Rodrigo, a would-be drummer, and his friends who are trapped in the violence and drugs which define their turbulent lifestyle.
Sicario, Assassin for Hire: PN1997 .S5546 2003 DVD
It develops in Colombia. Tired of his family's stifling poverty, a young boy named Jairo gets involved with the world of crime when street kids coerce him to take part in a robbery. He takes on a job as a hired assassin---a "sicario"---for a local drug lord. He becomes an expert killer, and is soon immersed in a world where anyone can kill and die for money. However, when Jairo decides he's had enough, he quickly learns that there is no such thing as an easy way out.
La Vendedora De Rosas: PN1997 .V42 1998 DVD
13 year-old Mónica and her friends live on the streets of Medellín, Colombia, surviving by selling roses to couples in nightclubs and sniffing glue to escape their desperation and loneliness. Set in the two days before Christmas, the film is a modernization of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl, starring a non-professional cast of Medellín street children.
La Virgen de los Sicarios: PQ8180.32.A4277 V5 2002 DVD
An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis. Based on Fernando Vallejo's book.
Compiled by
Cindy Badilla-Melendez
Media Resources Librarian
