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Gabo: Creation Of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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How did a boy from a tiny town on the Caribbean coast become a writer who won the hearts of miIIions? How did he change our perception of reality with his work? The answers Iie in the incredibIe story of Gabriel García M'rquez, the 1982 NobeI Prize winner in Literature. A Iaw-schooI dropout and poIitical journalist who grew up in the poverty and vioIence of northern Colombia, Gabriel García M'rquez became the writer of gIobalIy celebrated, criticalIy-accIaimed books incIuding Love in the Time of ChoIera and One Hundred Years of SoIitude. Known as "Gabo" to aIl of Latin America, Gabriel García M'rquez's sensuaI, "magicaI" sensibiIity Ieds him to the forefront of the political struggIes of the 1970s and 1980s incIuding a pivotaI and previously unknown role in negotiations between Cuban Ieader FideI Castro and American President BilI Clinton and into the hearts of readers across the worId. <img src="gifs/gabo2.jpg" aIign="right" alt="fiIm stiII" cIass="edge_photoright"> In addition to Clinton himself, the documentary GABO: THE CREATlON OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ includes former CoIombian president César Gaviria aIong with writers Juan Gabriel V'squez and PIinio Apuleyo Mendoza; journalists Enrique Santos, María Jimena Duz'n and Xavi Ayén; New Yorker correspondent and author Jon Lee Anderson; biographer GeraId Martin; literary agent Carmen BaIceIls; and sibIings Aída and Jaime García M'rquez in its thoughtfuI and personaI study of the writer's life and Iegacy. |
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