Year 2015 Video Release 2016 05 10 Studio Icarus Films Genre Documentary MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 90 Animated Live Action Full Synopsis 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 andOne 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. Director Justin Webster Cast Justin Webster