Love In The Time Of Cholera

Romance

Javier Bardem	Florentino Ariza
Salvatore Basile	Mayor
Alicia Borrachero	Escolástica
Benjamin Bratt	Dr. Juvenal Urbino
Adriana Cantor	Andrea Varón
Angie Cepeda	La Viuda de Nazareth
Hector Elizondo	Don Leo
Laura Harring	Sara Noriega
John Leguizamo	Lorenzo Daza
Rubria Marcheens Negrao	Rosalba
Gina Bernard Forbes	Digna Pardo
Giovanna Mezzogiorno	Fermina Urbino
Marcela Mar	America Vicuña
Juan Ángel	Marco Aurelio - 40's
Liliana Gonzalez	Marco Aurelio?s Wife
Catalina Botero	Ofelia Urbino - 40's
Miguel Angel Pazos Galindo	Ofelia?s Husband
Maria Cecilia Herrera	Urbino's Sweet Wife

Director	Mike Newell
Producer	Michael Nozik; Noel Donnellon; Danny Greenspun
Writer	Ronald Harwood; Gabriel García Márquez

The movie “Love in the Time of Cholera” begins with the death of old Dr. Urbino (Benjamin Bratt). His wife Fermina (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) finds Florentino (Javier Bardem) in her living room on returning home from the funeral, who tells her that he’s been waiting for her for years. She tells him to buzz off. Then there’s a flash back to 1879 in Columbia, when young Florentino first spies Fermina and immediately declares his allegiance to Fermina. But Fermina's father (John Leguizamo), who chews a mean cigar, refuses this courtship as he feels that Florentino, a lowly telegraph clerk, doesn’t deserve Fermina, a gorgeous rich woman, the daughter of Senor Daza. So, they’re pulled apart. Years later, Fermina falls under the spell of Dr. Urbino when he comes to examine her for the symptoms of cholera and marries him. Florentino, meanwhile, becomes a wealthy industrialist. He has 622 affairs by which he tries to keep Fermina far from his mind. This goes on right into old age, when Florentino, in his seventies, is shown in bed with a naked 20-ish bombshell who turns to him and says, “Let’s do it again. Please.” However, Florentino heroically manages not to pass out.