The Deal
2005·Colombia·72 min.
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Based on a true story of a British television crew that travelled to Colombia to film a fake documentary about drug trafficking. In one scene, shot in the director’s hotel room, an actor played the part of a character whom the filmmakers passed off as Cali Cartel’s Number Three. They claimed they had risked their lives to get the interview. One sequence also shows a man pretending to swallow capsules of heroine and transporting them to London in his stomach. This phoney TV documentary is an international smash hit. When a London daily discovers that the whole thing is a hoax, a team of British journalists are sent out to Colombia to cover the story. Their report unleashes a scandal that shakes the very foundations of television in the UK.
DirectorFrancisco Norden
ScreenwriterFrancisco Norden
CinematographyCezary Jaworski
CastJavier Gnecco·Alfredo L. Fernández·Julián Román·Isabella Santodomingo·Ramiro Meneses·Diego Trujillo·Vicky Hernández·Juan Ángel·Álvaro Rodríguez·Fernando Solórzano·Andrés Parra·Jairo Camargo·Óscar Borda·Dora Cadavid·Rafael Bohórquez·Constanza Duque·Julio Correal·César Mora·Júlio César Herrera·Luis Fernando Múnera·Diego Vélez·Carlos Manuel VesgaShow all
Original titleEl trato