Stockholm Film Festival

Did you ever secretly admire the glamorous but violent gangsters who made Miami Vice-cops Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs’ lives hell? Then Cocaine Cowboys is your kind of film – it’s Scarface, the way it was in real life.Pre-cocaine, Miami belonged to the old. During 70’s, however, the city changed drastically. Miami profited greatly from the drug money that made dealers spend millions on cars, real estates and construction projects. But as the Colombian drug cartel faced competition from the Cubans, bloody shoot-outs became everyday life. Miami became, as Time magazine put it, Paradise Lost.Billy Corben has met the guys who did big business with Pablo Escobar and the Medellín family. He has talked to the people who smuggled the coke from Colombia to Miami, and to those who worked as hit-men for infamous Godmother Griselda Blanco. This is suspense, thiller and drama, in the shape of a highly accomplished documentary.ELIN LARSSON

Premiärstatus

Nordisk premiär

Producent

Alfred Spellman

Foto

Armando Salas

Musik

Jan Hammer

Talat språk

English

 

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