No One Writes to the Colonel () is a 1999 French Spanish Mexican drama movie directed by Arturo Ripstein and is based on the 1961 novella of the same name by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It stars Fernando Luján, Marisa Paredes, Salma Hayek, Rafael Inclán, Ernesto Yáñez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Esteban Soberanes, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Odiseo Bichir, Julián Pastor, Eugenio Lobo.