- published: 17 Oct 2015
- views: 1116423
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord. He was an elusive cocaine trafficker and a rich and successful criminal. In 1986, he had a short-lived career in Colombian politics.
Escobar was born in the village of Rionegro in Antioquia, Colombia, the third of seven children to Abel de Jesus Escobar, a farmer, and Hemilda Gaviria, an elementary school teacher. As a teenager on the streets of Medellin, he would begin his criminal career, allegedly stealing gravestones and sanding them down for resale to smugglers. His brother, Roberto Escobar, denies this, claiming that the gravestones came from cemetery owners whose clients had stopped paying for site care and that they had a relative who had a legitimate monuments business. He studied for a short time at the University of Antioquia.
Pablo was involved in many criminal activities — running petty street scams, selling contraband cigarettes and fake lottery tickets, and stealing cars. In the early 1970s, he was a thief and bodyguard, and he made a quick $100,000 on the side kidnapping and ransoming a Medellín executive before entering the drug trade. His next step on the ladder was to become a millionaire by working for the multi-millionaire contraband smuggler Alvaro Prieto. Pablo's childhood ambition was to become a millionaire by the time he was 22.
Actors: Gilles Waterkeyn (producer), Carlos Bardem (actor), Kevin Koeniger (miscellaneous crew), Adrian Politowski (producer), Benicio Del Toro (actor), Josh Hutcherson (actor), Myriam Rak (miscellaneous crew), Brady Corbet (actor), Cathy Dutheil (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Di Stefano (director), Andrea Di Stefano (writer), Maryline Monthieux (editor), M.A. Faura (producer), Marylin Fitoussi (costume designer), Michel Rangel (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Romance, Thriller,Actors: Bobby Reed (actor), Ethan Suplee (actor), Max Perlich (actor), Ray Liotta (actor), Crafty St. James (actor), Paul Reubens (actor), Nick Cassavetes (actor), Miguel Ángel Fuentes (actor), Bobcat Goldthwait (actor), Cliff Curtis (actor), Jordi Mollà (actor), Miguel Sandoval (actor), Johnny Depp (actor), Penélope Cruz (actress), Anastasia Blue (actress),
Plot: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, absent-mother, actor, adultery, airplane, airplane-stewardessActors: Serge Lalou (producer), Olivia Bruynoghe (miscellaneous crew), Olivia Bruynoghe (miscellaneous crew), Guy Courtecuisse (miscellaneous crew), Anne Weil (editor), René Cleitman (producer), Philippe Miller (composer), Emmanuel Bourdieu (writer), Éliane de Latour (writer), Éliane de Latour (director), Marie-Frédérique Lauriot dit Prévost (producer), Jimmy Danger (actor), Michel Marre (composer), Shang Lee Souleyman Kere (actor), Awa Diara (actor),
Plot: Toussaint (Diate) and Nixon (Ousseni) are teenage friends in the Ivory Coast who can't find jobs. After accidentally killing someone in defense of Nixon, Toussaint and Nixon join Bronx, the local gang that rules the ghetto, for protection. Toussaint quickly establishes himself as a worthy warrior in robberies arranged by his mentor (oldsta), Tyson (Shang Lee Souleyman Kere) and gains enough status to be seen as an oldsta, rather than yougsta among the kids that came in at the time he did. He uses this position to cut short a gang rape of Mariam (Dogo), a slender girl that he fancies, and then he takes her on as his woman. Meanwhile, Nixon and some other impatient youngstas, decide to pull a job on their own, with a fake gun. When they mess up, one youngsta is beaten to death by the neighbors and Nixon is tracked down by the police and jailed.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Dennis Farina (actor), Chris Mulkey (actor), Assumpta Serna (actress), Michael Mann (producer), Charles Bernstein (composer), Denise Blasor (miscellaneous crew), Karen Young (actress), John Glover (actor), Michele Placido (actor), Marc Macaulay (actor), Ismael 'East' Carlo (actor), Julie Carmen (actress), John Vargas (actor), Alex McArthur (actor), Efrain Figueroa (actor),
Genres: Drama,