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Released
2007 · FILM

Love in the Time of Cholera

A devoted telegraph operator vows to win the heart of his beloved Fermina, battling societal expectations and a rival marriage for half a century to prove that true love can endure any obstacle.

“How long would you wait for love?”

Directed by
Mike Newell
Written by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ronald Harwood
Runtime
139 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

In Colombia, shortly after World War I, an elderly man falls from a ladder and, as he lies dying, expresses deep love for his wife. After his funeral, a man visits the widow, but she angrily turns him away. The narrative then flashes back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a young telegraph operator, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mick AudsleyShot by Affonso BeatoScored by Antonio PintoDesigned by Wolf Kroeger

Box Office

2007 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.6M

Budget$45.0M
Worldwide gross$4.6M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $1.9M — 42% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $2.5M — 55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 852 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholerade
  • Kamasutra 4 la venganza de slashen
  • El amor en los tiempos del cóleraes
  • L'Amour aux temps du cholérafr
  • L'amore ai tempi del colerait

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