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2011 film
The Snitch Cartel
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Film poster
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Directed by
| Carlos Moreno
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Written by
| Luiso Berdejo
Juan Camilo Ferrand
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Based on
| El cartel de los sapos
by Andres Lopez Lopez
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Produced by
| Manolo Cardona
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Starring
| Manolo Cardona
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Cinematography
| Mateo Londono
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Release date
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- 11 November 2011
(
2011-11-11
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Running time
| 81 minutes
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Country
| Colombia
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Language
| Spanish
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Box office
| $2.1 million
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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 of the same name by Andres Lopez Lopez, 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
.
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Plot
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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, Oscar 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 which he is uncanny to take part in, forcing him to move to Mexico looking for allies while struggling between the money and power that he now has, and becoming a
sapo
(snitch) for the
DEA
, to protect his beloved Sofia.
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Associated media
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In addition to the aforementioned 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.
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