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Grandes pillos

2018 · 1 season

A wry, news-ripped dramatization of real swindles, watching charming fraudsters spin ever-bolder lies until the reckoning.

Created by
Sebastián Araya
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Álvaro Escobar, Marcial Tagle, Guilherme Sepúlveda
Overview
Fictional recreation of the biggest scammers who in the recent years have been in all the news headlines.

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Created by
Sebastián Araya
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Álvaro Escobar, Marcial Tagle, Guilherme Sepúlveda
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How it feels

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Tone
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • crime
  • greed
  • media
  • justice
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
  • anthology
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
documentary
Created by
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Written by
Luis Barrales, Daniel Villalobos, Enrique Videla
Starring
Álvaro Escobar, Marcial Tagle, Guilherme Sepúlveda, Andrés Pozo, Mauricio Diocares, Juan Carlos Cáceres, Ignacio Verdugo, Carolina Correa
Length
1 seasons, 5 episodes, 58 min each
Network
Chilevisión
Country
Chile
Languages
Spanish

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