Love in the Time of Cholera

Oct 4, 2007

2h 19m

★ 6.6

How long would you wait for love?

Overview

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

New Line Cinema

Summit Entertainment

Stone Village Pictures

Grosvenor Park Productions

Love in the Time of Cholera Trailers

Cast

Florentino Ariza

Javier Bardem

junger Florentino

Unax Ugalde

Juvenal Urbino

Benjamin Bratt

Hildebranda Sanchez

Catalina Sandino Moreno

Don Leo

Héctor Elizondo

Lotario Thurgot

Liev Schreiber

Transito Ariza

Fernanda Montenegro

Sara Noriega

Laura Harring

Lorenzo Daza

John Leguizamo

Olympia Zuleta

Ana Claudia Talancón

Escolastica

Alicia Borrachero

America Vicuna

Marcela Mar

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