Gabo the creation of Gabriel García Márquez

DVD 2015

A biography with the narrative tension of an investigation and thoughtful and personal study of the life and legacy of Gabriel García Márquez, known as "Gabo" to all of Latin America, the 1982 Nobel Prize winner for Literature and author of the globally-celebrated and critically-acclaimed masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude. The Colombian journalist and law-school dropout grew up in the poverty and violence of northern Colombia to become...

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García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

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1 videodisc (90 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
digital optical
video file DVD video region 1
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: NR

Other Title:

Original title: Gabo, la magia de lo real
Gabo, la creación de Gabriel García Márquez
Gabo, the magic of reality
Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Notes:

Filmed on location in Bogota, on the Carribean coast of Colombia (Aracataca, Sucre, Cartagena de Indias, Barranquilla), in Paris, London, Barcelona and New York
Originally released as a motion picture in 2015
Title from container
Director of photography, Lucas Gath ; editor, Judit Méndez Puig ; music, Laro Basterrechea
Participants: Aída García Márquez, Bill Clinton, Carmen Balcells, César Gaviria, Enrique Santos, Gerald Martin, Jaime García Márquez, Jon Lee Anderson, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, María Elvira Samper, María Jimena Duzán, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Tachia Quintana
DVD ; widescreen presentation
For private home use only
In Spanish and English with English subtitles
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

Control Number:

1911127

UPC:

854565001879

Other Authors:

Anderson, Jon Lee, interviewee
Basterrechea, Laro, composer
Clinton, Bill, 1946- interviewee
Duzán, María Jimena, interviewee
García Márquez, Aída, 1930- interviewee
García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014, interviewee
Gaviria Trujillo, César, interviewee
Horne Productions, production company
Horne, Kate, film producer
Icarus Films, publisher
JWProductions, production company
Martin, Gerald, 1944- interviewee
Mendoza, Plinio Apuleyo, interviewee
Quintana de Rosoff, Tachia, interviewee
Ronachan Films (Firm), production company
Samper, María Elvira, 1954- interviewee
Santos Calderón, Enrique, interviewee
Vásquez, Juan Gabriel, 1973- interviewee
Webster, Justin, 1963- film director

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