From absolute poverty to absolute power! "El Don" is the saga of a common man with uncommonly fierce ambition who rises to rule an empire of unspeakable evil only to discover that the love he thought he had forgotten still rules what is left of his heart.
Acting
Edgar Ramírez before he was famous, already commanding
Direction
Novoa squeezes maximum melodrama from minimal resources
Director
José Ramón Novoa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Edgar Ramírez's breakthrough role before Hollywood came calling for Zero Dark Thirty and Carlos.
El Don is part of a wave of Venezuelan crime cinema examining how 1990s economic collapse created new criminal aristocracies.
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