La empresa (2023)
1h 34m
Running Time
January 30, 2023Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Ernesto Oliva

José Miguel Barrera

Antonio Barrera

Yvonne Bernal

Eugenio Garcia Cruz

Francisca Garcia Cruz

Leticia Garcia Flores

Julia Cöllen
Producer

André Siegers
Director / Screenplay

Philipp Diettrich
Director of Photography

Philipp Diettrich
Screenplay

Frank Scheuffele
Producer

Karsten Krause
Producer

Simon Quack
Editor
