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Agarrando pueblo

Original title: The Vampires of Poverty

“Watch the misfortune of the miserable... uncensored”

1978 · 28 min
Directed by Luis Ospina
Short filmComedy

Cast

Luis Alfonso Londoño Carlos Mayolo Ramiro Arbeláez Eduardo Carvajal Javier Villa Fabián Ramírez

Credits

Written by: Carlos Mayolo

Plot

A film crew makes a documentary about poverty in Colombia and pays poor people to act, in a satirical mock-documentary about exploiting the poor for foreign audiences.

Sinekatalog’s take

A short, ferocious satire that remains sharp.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (1,133 votes)
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