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Love in the Time of Cholera is a movie based on the classic novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. With the participation of several actors of Hispanic origin.
The film tells the story of Florentino Ariza (Unax Ugalde / Javier Bardem) who is willing to wait 51 years 9 months and 4 days which it considers is the love of his life, Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno). The story takes place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in the Caribbean coast of Colombia, in times of hardship and prevailing several civil wars raging across the country. A coastal cities comes the cholera epidemic and the "symptoms of love are mistaken for this disease."

Florentino falls in love with Fermina and the courts since his teens but the character and social differences between them. Fermina marries Dr. Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt), Florentino continues to love her but for the rest of life waiting for a chance to get back to be with her. Florentino during their life holds clandestine love with different women, some widows, some single, but his only goal is to make Fermina is with him so he waits patiently for over 50 years the day when Dr. Urbino dies trying to regain it.