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La empresa (2023)
Directed by André Siegers
Drama, Documentary · 1h 34m
La empresa is a strange creature of a most ambiguous nature: a fiction film about documentary filmmaking as fiction filmmaking, and what it all does to a region’s economy as well as a collective psychology. Or is it? Isn’t it more to the point to say that... But before we get lost here, let’s state what La empresa talks about: how the caminata nocturna, the illegal crossing of the border between Mexico and the United States, was turned into a business that ranges from four-hour night-time tours for tourists out for a sick thrill to reenactments for film and television crews. The latter, of course, is at the core of André Siegers’ casually ironic look at this economy of disaster. When the Germans arrive in town, they meet a workforce already in place and willing to play to any national stereotype – as the French seem to get other kicks out of presenting the caminata nocturna than the Netflix internationals.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- André Siegers
- Screenplay
- Philipp Diettrich, André Siegers
- Director of Photography
- Philipp Diettrich
- Editor
- Simon Quack
- Producer
- Frank Scheuffele, Karsten Krause, Julia Cöllen
Details
- Release date
- 2023-01-30
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Drama, Documentary
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- English, German, Spanish
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Fünferfilm UG