The Deal
El trato
Release: 2005-11-01
·★ 10.0
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Colombia
Cast
Dora Cadavid
Julio Medina
Carlos-Manuel Vesga
Luis Fernando Múnera
as Pablo Velasco
Julián Román
Isabella Santodomingo
as Rosalba
Fernando Solórzano “El Flaco”
Óscar Borda
Luis Fernández
as Cecil
Diego Trujillo
Diego Vélez
Andrés Parra
as Policia USA
Carolina Trujillo
Joavany Alvarez
as Security Guard
Jairo Camargo
Julio Cesar Herrera
César Mora
Santiago Moure
Álvaro Rodríguez
Constanza Duque
Vicky Hernández
Ramiro Meneses
as John María
