The Middlemen

THE MIDDLEMEN

35mm, 15:00

Produced by Diane Sánchez

Directed by Betty Kaplan

Written by Orlando Araujo

Photography by Nino Marty

Sound Simon Fleszler

Actors:  Antonio Briceño, Mariano Álvarez, Alejo Felipe, Eduardo Gadea, Carmen Landaeta, José Antonio Barrios Rafael Cárdenas.

Screened at the COLUMBIA CINEMA EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO 1988 NATIONAL - LATINO FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL

Shown at Joseph Papp’s FESTIVAL LATINO IN NEW YORK - AUGUST 1989

Screened at the ATENEO DE CARACAS - 1985

A humoristic look at the intermediary, the go-between which have become a necessary fixture in Latin America. The film tells the drama of four farmers who confront the powerful potato mafia exerted by the truck drivers along the routes of access. They join forces to get a truck and sell their own products at the market but find middlemen everywhere… these are all played by the same actor, the cop on route, the truck driver of the mafia who harass them, the supervisor at the market and finally the middleman between man and God.