Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Italian: Cronaca di una morte annunciata, Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) is a drama film directed by Francesco Rosi adapted by Tonino Guerra from the eponymous novella by the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez.

It stars Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Anthony Delon and Gian Maria Volonté.

[2] Six months before Santiago Nasar was killed, a handsome, young foreigner arrived to his hometown, a small Colombian city in the banks of the Magdalena river.

Angela's brothers (who are twins) are forced by local custom to avenge the family's honor, by taking Santiago's life.

The murder takes place the day after the wedding when the town is in turmoil waiting for the visit of the bishop who is crossing the city by the river.

The twins Pablo and Pedro Vicario, are reluctant to commit the crime, but they must kill the man who took their sister's honor.

The twins, with knives wrapped in newspaper, wait for Santiago to appear in Clotilde Armenta's shop, who gives them rum, hoping to make them so drunk that they will be unable to commit the killing.

However, during the investigation after the murder, and even when she is questioned again 27 years later by Cristóbal, she never changes her story, she still claims that Santiago Nasar was her "perpetrator".

While many of the actors are unknown to American audiences, Chronicle of a Death Foretold has a cast of international European stars: the film displays the talent of the veterans Irene Papas and Gian Maria Volonté.