by Antonio Skármeta · Debolsillo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497932714
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Il Postino (The Postman) is a 1994 Italian-language film co-written and directed by Michael Radford. It is based on the 1985 novel Ardiente Paciencia (Burning Patience) by Antonio Skármeta, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film stars Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi, and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. The film tells a fictional story about the real-life Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who forms a friendship with a local postman (Troisi) when he is exiled to a small island in Italy.
Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic was a Chilean writer, screenwriter, and director. His novel Ardiente paciencia was the basis for the film Il Postino. In Chile, he was popularly known for hosting a television show on literature and the arts. He served as Chile's ambassador to Germany from 2000 to 2003. In 2014, he was awarded the Chilean National Literature Prize.
