Pop Top Sundance: Kingpin's son seeks redemption in new doc
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The Argentinean documentary "Sins of My Father," (World Cinema Documentary Competition) offers a riveting perspective of the story of Columbian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar -- through the eyes of his son and the children of those Escobar killed.

Sebastian Marroquín (he changed his last name) has been burdened by his father's reign of terror and seeks redemption for his surviving family by contacting and apologizing to the sons of political figures his father murdered in the 1980s.

"Sins" is not just a peek into the family archives of Escobar's violence-riddled life (there is plenty of personal video and audio tapes), it's a moving view of regret, as well as a son's attempts to break free from a generation of pain.

-- Vince Horiuchi

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