Colombian Drug Epic ‘Birds of Passage’ Takes Flight
The film explores the country’s drug trafficking and its impact on an indigenous clan in the ’60s and ’70s
In “Birds of Passage,” a new film exploring the growth of Colombia’s drug trade in the 1960s and ’70s, the family at its center lives by a code that wouldn’t seem out of place in “The Godfather.”
“If there’s family, there’s respect,” says the matriarch of the marijuana-trafficking clan. “If there’s respect, there’s honor.”
“Birds of Passage,”...