The Embassy of Colombia
with the kindly support of
Momentum Pictures and Master Services
announce the Premiere in London of

18st March 2008
Odeon Covent Garden

Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez

Starring Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Liev Schreiber and John Leguizamo

Directed by Mike Newell

Academy Award® winner Javier Bardem stars as Florentino Ariza, a poet and telegraph clerk who discovers his life’s passion when he sees Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) through the window of her father’s villa. Through a series of passionate letters, Florentino gradually awakens the young beauty’s heart, but her father (John Leguizamo) is furious when he learns of the affair, and vows to keep them apart forever. As the years go by, Fermina marries the sophisticated aristocrat Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt), who has brought order and medicine to Cartagena, stemming the waves of cholera that mysteriously besiege the city. He sweeps her away to Paris for years, and when they start their lives together back in Cartagena, she has all but forgotten her first love. But Florentino has not forgotten her. Now a wealthy ship-owner, Florentino engages in a series of affairs but still yearns for Fermina. His heart is patient, and he will wait a lifetime for the chance to be with her again.

Directed by Mike Newell (Donnie Brasco, Enchanted April), Love in the Time of Cholera is a thrilling, sensual and complex journey into the very heart of love. The Stone Village Pictures production is produced by Golden Globe® winner Scott Steindorff (The Human Stain, Empire Falls) and the screenplay is by Oscar®-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood (The Pianist, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), based on the novel by Gabriel García Márquez. Antonio Pinto (City of God) composed the score, and Colombian-born musical superstar Shakira contributes original songs.

The stellar ensemble cast features Academy Award® nominee Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls, The Sea Inside, No Country for Old Men), Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Venice Film Festival’s Volpi Cup winner for Don’t Tell, David di Notello Award winner for Facing Windows), Benjamin Bratt (Traffic, Clear and Present Danger), Academy Award® nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), Hector Elizondo (The Princess Diaries 1 & 2, Pretty Woman), Liev Schreiber (The Omen) and Fernanda Montenegro (The House of Sand and Fog, Central Station), with Laura Harring (Mulholland Dr.) and John Leguizamo (Moulin Rouge, Collateral Damage)

Released in the UK and Ireland on 21 March 2008 by Momentum Pictures UK.

This Premiere is possible with thesupport of the company Master Services. www.masterservicesuk.com | info@masterservicesuk.com

Gabriel Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
a) 1991
b) 1982
c) 1981
d) 1972
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