Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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How did a boy from a tiny town on the Caribbean coast become a writer who won the hearts of millions? How did he change our perception of reality with his work?

The answers lie in the incredible story of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the 1982 Nobel Prize winner in Literature.

A law-school dropout and political journalist who grew up in the poverty and violence of northern Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez became the writer of globally celebrated, critically-acclaimed books including Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude .

Known as 'Gabo' to all of Latin America, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's sensual, 'magical' sensibility led him to the forefront of the political struggles of the 1970s and 1980s-including a pivotal and previously unknown role in negotiations between Cuban leader Fidel Castro and American President Bill Clinton-and into the hearts of readers across the world.

In addition to Clinton himself, the documentary GABO: THE CREATION OF GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ includes former Colombian president Cesar Gaviria along with writers Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza; journalists Enrique Santos, Maria Jimena Duzan and Xavi Ayen; New Yorker correspondent and author Jon Lee Anderson; biographer Gerald Martin; literary agent Carmen Balcells; and siblings Aida and Jaime Garcia Marquez in its thoughtful and personal study of the writer's life and legacy.

'This biography of Garcia Marquez has the narrative tension of an investigation.' - El Espectador

'Webster has amassed an impressive collection of voices for his investigation into the life of the man behind the Nobel Prize-winning myth. - Remezcla

Recounts the life of the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude from birth in the humble village of Aracataca, in northern Colombia, through his passion for writing, family life, time in the political battles the 1970s and 1980s, and crowning as winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.' - El Siglo de Torreon

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Webster, Justin (film director)
Horne, Kate (film producer)

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Directory of photography, Lucas Gath; editor, Judit Méndez Puig; music, Laro Basterrechea.

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He chronicled in a thousand different ways

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the futility of denying the
primacy of the human spirit

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Someone just said to me, you know, you should
really read this book. And I started reading

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and I literally couldn’t quit,
it was like an addiction,

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I couldn’t put it down. And I was
reading it in a class one day,

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I still remember it was

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tax class which I didn’t like although I loved
the professor and (inaudible) already said,

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\"What’s so much more interesting than I am?\" then
I said, \"This! This is the greatest novel written

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in any language since we (inaudible). They
told eternal truth’s of human nature,

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human motivation and how
we’re driven up and down

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by love and hate, greed and
generosity, hopes and fears.

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It was just this breath taking

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picture of life unfolding.

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Vargas Llosa is one of the main leaders…

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of the anti-Cuba, anti-Castro movement

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Garcia Márquez refuses to
sign, Plinio signs for him…

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as Garcia Márquez later said, He signed
for me… even though I wouldn’t signed

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He was searching for the lost
dream of the Latin American

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We’re discussing that you
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It’s his great novel of reconciliation

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It is like a telenovel written by

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I was sitting in the oval office, I’ll never
forget this and I opened it and read two pages.

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I did something I don’t
know if I ever did it again

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but on this day I literally
made up an excuse

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to cancel a couple of
appointments and I went back

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and read the thing straight through.

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And after that I felt like

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I understood the situation I
thought that I understood

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the motivations of young man would
know where to Micheal living.

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Being drawn into the gangs and I believe

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that there had to be a way out of it
because of the way he painted the players.

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He was a wonderful conversationalists, he was
serious and direct about what he believed

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but he could express his
disagreements with you

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and still show good will.

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When we were talking once about
Castro when he knew that

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I might lifting embargo. And he said,
\"Castro only wants two things.\"

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I said, \"What are they?\" He said,
\"He wants you to promise that

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if the embargo lifted, nobody
would try to take away

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the Universal Health Care or
the Universal Education.\"

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I said, \"That’s easy, I agree with him.\"

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And he said, \"He wants you to promise that
you will not permit any Cuban Americans

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to weaken his stand against
the narco-traffickers.\"

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I wanted to lift the embargo

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in my second term and he knew it and then the
congress (inaudible) that keep it in marks

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(inaudible) concerned now nobody can
lift the embargo without our support.

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He never stop being taken seriously
as an artist and gave weight

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to his public convictions
and about the larger issues

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that’s quite unique thing to do.

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The scene is set in Sucre
\"Chronicles of a Death Foretold\"…

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is one of Garcia Márquez’s masterpieces The
language of the book is profoundly his…

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it enriches reality, it

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It reveals Garcia Márquez’s magic touch

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Santiago Nasar, whose real counterpart… was
Garcia Márquez’s good friend Caylano Gentile…

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Santiago’s struggle
against a death sentence…

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dictated by forces he doesn’t understand
And the assasins struggle as well…

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who are pulled by overpowering forces One of
the conflicts he obsessed over as a writer…

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was man verses destiny

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He was a great heart and a great mind

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who taught us how we imprison ourselves

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and our fears

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and our illusion that

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control is possible that
dominance is possible that

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wealth and power are matter
of more than love and grace.

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