EL SICARIO ROOM 164

By Gianfranco ROSI

THE PARTY FILM SALES - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2010

A Juarez 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.At the moment, there is a contract on his life of $250,000and he lives as a fugitive.

Festivals
& Awards

La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2010
Orizzonti
    • Year of production
    • 2010
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Gianfranco ROSI
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/8AB5-C5DA-4BF0-D741-7738-G
    • Producer(s)
    • Gianfranco ROSI (21oneProductions), Serge LALOU (Les Films d'ici)
    • Synopsis
    • A Juarez hit man speaks : el sicario ROOM 164 is an eighty-minute documentary about a hit man. 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 Ciudad Juárez and has moved freely throughout Mexico and the United States. 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 U.S. / 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.