| Overview: | "El Rey" tells the story of Pedro Rey (Fernando Solorzano, "Pena Maxima", "Soplo De Vida"), the mythical father of the Colombian cocaine trade. A riveting drama based on the real-life exploits of Jaime Caicedo, the legendary "Al Capone of Colombia", the film tracks Rey's evolution from opportunistic businessman to megalomaniacal drug lord. Recruiting a small-time crook (Marlon Moreno, "El Manantial") as his supplier, a Peace Corps worker (Olivier Pages, "Paparazzi") as his North American distributor, and a Marxist revolutionary (Elkin Diaz, "Juegos Prohibidos") as his chemist, Rey turns the modest Colombian coke trade into an empire.
The King then sets about protecting his empire by adding a cop (Juan Sebastian Aragon, "Pasion De Gavilanes") and a politician ("Vanessa Simon, "La Venganza", "Sin Limites") to his team, as well as the buying the loyalty of the local peasants. But in Rey's world, loyalty is a one-way street, and when the King turns his back on any of his subjects, he'd better hope that one of them doesn't put a bullet in it.
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