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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.
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. He meets 16-year-old Alexis.
- (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
Original title: La virgen de los sicarios. Synopsis: A Colombian author in his fifties returns to his hometown of Medellín after 30 years of absence but finds himself trapped in an atmosphere of violence and murder caused by drug cartel warfare.You can watch Our Lady of the Assassins through Rent on the platforms: Apple TV
- (3.6K)
- Colombia
- Rodrigo Lalinde
- Barbet Schroeder
Apr 16, 2013 · My review of La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins), based on the autobiography of Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo, and shot in Medellin.
La virgen de los sicarios is a highly controversial film that is never short on be direct in the most delicated themes on the modern society, but i felt it quiet pretentious mostly because...
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- Drama, LGBTQ+
- R
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Sep 1, 2000 · 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.
