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Our Lady of the Assassins ( Spanish: La virgen de los sicarios) is a 2000 Spanish-language romantic crime drama film directed by Barbet Schroeder from a screenplay by Fernando Vallejo, based on his 1994 novel of the same title. The film follows a Colombian author in his 50s who returns to his hometown of Medellín after 30 years of absence to ...
Sep 20, 2000 · Our Lady of the Assassins: Directed by Barbet Schroeder. With Germán Jaramillo, Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo, Manuel Busquets. The writer F. Vallejo returns to Medellin after an absence of over 30 years.
- (4.3K)
- Crime, Drama
- Barbet Schroeder
- 2000-09-20
Our Lady of the Assassins (Spanish title: La virgen de los sicarios) is a semi-autobiographical novel by the Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo about an author in his fifties who returns to his hometown of Medellín after 30 years of absence to find himself trapped in an atmosphere of violence and murder caused by drug cartel warfare.
- Fernando Vallejo
- 1994
Oct 26, 2001 · ''Our Lady of the Assassins,'' based on an autobiographical novel by the Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo, resonates also with Barbet Schroeder's own life; he was raised in Colombia, has worked mostly in the United States and France, and at 60 is an extraordinary figure. ''No other person in the film world can match his record of diversity,'' notes Stanley Kauffmann in his New Republic review ...
Movies on Disney+. Our Lady of the Assassins. List. The writer Fernando Vallejo returns to Medellin, the city of his childhood, after an absence of over thirty years. Fernando meets Alexis, 16 ...
- (63)
- Barbet Schroeder
- R
- Drama, LGBTQ+
Synopsis. World-weary author Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs, and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but hardened street kid who lives by the rule of the gun.
- 101 min
The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin Alexis, who murders all too easily. When Alexis himself is fatally gunned down, grief-stricken Fernando hunts for his young lover's killer in the Medellin ...
