The Snitch Cartel
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Director Carlos Moreno Music director Carlo Siliotto Duration Country Colombia | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Initial DVD release April 16, 2013 (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Luiso Berdejo , Juan Camilo Ferrand Release date 11 November 2011 (2011-11-11) Initial release November 11, 2011 (Colombia) Cast Juana Acosta (Sofía), (Martín), (Pepe Cadena), (Damián), Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (Modesto), Adriana Barraza (La Abuela)Similar movies Election , Election 2 , Ana Maria in Novela Land , Branded to Kill , La Madrastra: Años después , El anticristo 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Snitch Cartel (Spanish: El Cartel de los Sapos) is a 2011 Colombian crime film directed by Carlos Moreno. The film was selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards but did not make the final shortlist.
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The film, like the 2008 Caracol TV series El Cartel, is based on the 2008 novel by the same name by Andrés López López, alias Florecita ("Little Flower"), a former drug dealer who, while in prison, wrote the fictionalized account of his experiences in the Cali Cartel and of what happened within the Norte del Valle Cartel.
Plot
Two friends enter the illegal drugs business, one of them is a lower class boy, Martin, alias Strawberry, a smart and skilled young man seeking to earn money to gain the attention of his childhood love, Sophia. His new boss, Óscar Cadena, makes a plan to take down the powerful Medellin Cartel, that is headed by the infamous don Pablo Escobar, while Martin moves up fast in the syndicate, becoming a vital part of the growing North Valley Cartel, he begins a turbulent life in the midst of a cartel war that Martín that he is uncanny to take part, forcing him to move to Mexico looking for allies while struggles between the money and power that he now owns, and becoming a sapo (snitch) for the DEA, to protect his beloved Sofia.
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Associated media
In addition to the aforrmentioned 2008 book that inspired both the 2011 film and the 2008 TV series, Lopez has written several additional books about his and his associates' experiences in the drug trade.
References
The Snitch Cartel WikipediaThe Snitch Cartel IMDb The Snitch Cartel themoviedb.org