Tribute to Benicio Del Toro 2022 / Traffic / USA, Germany 2000
Director Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic is a fascinating tale of the drug trade told from the perspective of everyone involved: politicians, police, smugglers, and end users. Soderbergh gives everyone their own story, which cleverly intertwines with all the others on the US-Mexico border. Excelling in this star-studded crime drama are Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Director Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic is a fascinating story about the drug trade told from the perspectives of everyone involved: politicians, police, smugglers, and end users. Soderbergh gives everyone their own story, which cleverly intertwines with all the others on the US-Mexico border. The result is a complex narrative that justifiably dominated the 2001 Academy Awards. Besides awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing, another golden Oscar statue went to the phenomenal Benicio Del Toro for his supporting role as police officer Javier Rodriguez. Excelling in other roles were Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Anna Kořínek
147 min / Color, DCP
Director Steven Soderbergh
/ Screenplay Stephen Gaghan
/ Dir. of Photography Steven Soderbergh
/ Music Cliff Martinez
/ Editor Stephen Mirrione
/ Art Director Philip Messina, Keith P. Cunningham
/ Producer Laura Bickford, Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick
/ Production Compulsion Inc., Initial Entertainment Group, Splendid Medien AG, The Bedford Falls Company, USA Films
/ Cast Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Steven Soderbergh (1963, Atlanta, USA). Selected filmography: Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989), King of the Hill (1993), Traffic (2000), Erin Brockovich (2000), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Side Effects (2013), The Laundromat (2019).
Benicio Del Toro
Actor
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