A Juárez hit man speaks : he has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for many years was a commander of the state police in Chihuahua. He even received some training from the FBI. He has lived in Juárez and has moved freely throughout Mexico and the US. At the moment, there is a contract on his life of $250,000 and he lives as a fugitive, though he is still free and has never been charged with a crime in any country. The film takes place in a motel room on the US / Mexico border. The sicario is highly intelligent, very articulate and all too believable. The film stems from Charles Bowden’s essay «The Sicario» published in 2009 in Harper’s Magazine.
EL SICARIO, ROOM 164
un film de Gianfranco Rosi - SociétéA Juárez hit man speaks : he has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for many years was a commander of the state police in Chihuahua. He even received some training from the FBI. He has lived in Juárez and has moved freely throughout Mexico and the US. At the moment, there is a contract on his life of $250,000 and he lives as a fugitive, though he is still free and has never been charged with a crime in any country. The film takes place in a motel room on the US / Mexico border. The sicario is highly intelligent, very articulate and all too believable. The film stems from Charles Bowden’s essay «The Sicario» published in 2009 in Harper’s Magazine.
A Juárez hit man speaks : he has killed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture and kidnapping, and for many years was a commander of the state police in Chihuahua. He even received some training from the FBI. He has lived in Juárez and has moved freely throughout Mexico and the US. At the moment, there is a contract on his life of $250,000 and he lives as a fugitive, though he is still free and has never been charged with a crime in any country. The film takes place in a motel room on the US / Mexico border. The sicario is highly intelligent, very articulate and all too believable. The film stems from Charles Bowden’s essay «The Sicario» published in 2009 in Harper’s Magazine.
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- Buy the DVD
- http://www.editionsmontparnasse.fr/p1486/El-Sicario-chambre-164-DVD
- Directed by
- Gianfranco Rosi
- Year
- 2010
- Genre
- Société
- Editing
- Jacopo Quadri
- Author
- Gianfranco Rosi et Charles Bowden
- Photography
- Gianfranco Rosi
- Sound
- Dominique Vieillard
- Mixage
- Dominique Vieillard
- Producer
- Robofilms - Gianfranco Rosi / Les Films d'Ici - Serge Lalou
Producteur exécutif - Executive producer
- Olivier Daunizeau
- Original soundtrack
- Abraham Spector
- Broadcaster
- Arte - La Lucarne / RAI
- Partners
- Arte France / CNC / PROCIREP / ANGOA / Société des Producteurs
- Manager of production
- Magali Boccaccio
- Langue
- Espagnol
- Available version
- Français & Anglais
- Length
- 80'
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-F52B-0000-J-0000-0000-H
- International sales
- Party Film Sales
- Video publisher
- Editions Montparnasse
- Special mention
- Prix Fispresci de la Critique Internationale au Festival de Venise 2010
Meilleur documentaire au festival international Doclisboa 2010 - Non-commercial sales
- Doc and Film
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