Escobar: Paradise Lost
Escobar: Paradise Lost- Director
- Andrea Di Stefano
- Country
- France, Spain, Belgium
- Year
- 2014
- Genre
- Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Andrea Di Stefano
- Cast
- Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia Traisac
- Production
- Chapter 2, Pathé Films, Orange Studio, Roxbury Pictures
Storyline
Told from the perspective of Nick, an innocent surfer from Canada, Escobar: Paradise Lost unfolds during the final years of Escobar's reign. Nick and his brother Dylan set up a modest surfing retreat near Medellin, where Nick meets the woman of his dreams, Maria, who is busy campaigning for her politician uncle. That uncle turns out to be Pablo, who invites Nick to a party at his "cottage," a sprawling, Xanadu-like jungle fortress. When he hears of the trouble Nick and Dylan are having with some local thugs, Pablo vows to "take care of it." The thugs turn up dead, and suddenly Nick finds himself immersed in a world of wild extravagance, corruption and bloodshed — one he will find nearly impossible to escape.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Toronto International Film Festival 2014
Rome Film Festival 2014
Gala
Releases
Lithuania (5 of January 2015)
Estonia (19 of December 2014)
Belgium (10 of December 2014)
France (5 of November 2014)
Spain (15 of October 2014)