Agarrando pueblo
Original title: The Vampires of Poverty
“Watch the misfortune of the miserable... uncensored”
1978 · 28 min
Luis OspinaCast
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)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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