El empleado y el patrón

L'employeur et l'employé

Quinzaine 2021 | Feature film | 1h46

World premiere

The employer is a young man who apparently has everything going on for him, except one pressing concern: his baby’s health. The employee is looking for a job to support his newborn too. He does not hesitate when the first decides to hire him to work in his lands. Both will meet their needs by helping each other. But one day an accident happens. This unexpected event will strain the ties between them, endangering the fate of the two families.

Director

Manuel Nieto Zas

Manuel Nieto Zas (Montevideo, 1972) is part of the new generation of Uruguayan cinema. In 2006, he wrote and directed his debut feature film, La perrera, Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival. It was followed by The Militant (2013), which he produced, in addition to his writing and directing. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and won, among other awards, the FIPRESCI Award at La Havana Film Festival. The Employer and the Employee is his third feature film.

Artistic & technical sheet

With

Cristian Borges
Fátima Quintanilla
Justina Bustos
Nahuel Perez Biscayart

Screenplay
Manuel Nieto Zas

Photography
Arauco Hernández Holz

Sound
Catriel Vildosola, Guillermo Picco, Gabriel Bervian

Production design
Alejandro Castiglioni, Nicole Davieux

Editing
Pablo Riera

Music
Holocausto Vegetal & Buenos Muchachos

Production
Roken Films
Convención 1156
11300, Montevideo- Uruguay
manolete@rokenfilms.com

Coproduction
Pasto (Argentine)
Murillo Cine (Argentine)
Vulcana Cinema (Brésil)
Sancho&Punta (Brésil)
Paraíso Production (France)

Associate producer
Nadador Cine (Uruguay)

Foreign sales
Latido Films
C/ San Bernardo 20, 2º8
28015 Madrid – Espagne
+34 91 54 88 877
latido@latidofilms.com
www.latidofilms.com

Distribution
Eurozoom
7 rue 4 Septembre
75002 Paris – France
+33 1 42 93 73 55
infos@eurozoom.fr
www.eurozoom.fr

Publicist
Presse France
Rachel Bouillon
+33 6 74 14 11 84
rachel@rb-presse.fr

For press

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