The 4th Company (2016)

Zambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the ... See full summary »

Directors:

Mitzi Vanessa Arreola, Amir Galván Cervera

Writer:

Mitzi Vanessa Arreola

Stars:

Adrian Ladron, Andoni Gracia, Hernán Mendoza

12 wins & 11 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Adrian Ladron	...	Zambrano
Andoni Gracia	...	Combate
Hernán Mendoza	...	Palafox
Gabino Rodríguez	...	Quinto
Darío T. Pie	...	Florecita
Manuel Ojeda	...	Chaparro
Carlos Valencia	...	El Tripas
Raymundo Reyes Moreno	...	Burrero
Juan Carlos Flores	...	Siqueiros
Horacio Garcia Rojas	...	Marrón
Guillermo Ríos	...	Entrenador Patino
Erando González	...	Antollín
Josepho Rodríguez	...	El Negro
José Sefami	...	Memo López
Julio Casado	...	Custodio Bartolo

Storyline

Zambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the auspices of the authority, because the team is also the 4th Company, a squad of inmates that controls services and privileges in prison, and submits the city to crime, reporting big dividends to men of Power.

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Plot Keywords:

football | quarterback | prison | male frontal nudity | male rear nudity | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama

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User Reviews

Good film, nice photo, actor's performances with real prisoners

The film recreates a true story of an American football team of the Santa Marta Acatitla prison at Mexico city in 1979. It was filmed in the original prison with mixing of actors and real prisoners (it is possible to distinguish the real prisoners by the personal care of the faces). The story shows the corruption of the Secretary of public security in Mexico city at that time and the hypocrisy of the system to show in the society the social rehabilitation of criminals by playing sports (American football). Behind the fake appearance, the director leads a criminal band using the football team to keep control of the prison and using their criminal skills for car robberies, bank assaults and jewelry stores outside the prison. The team also fight to get conditional freedom if they win the final of the tournament and if they follow the rules of the prison director. The film use pictures and personages of real former politicians with not explicit information that just have sense for people with mexican history knowkedge of this period of time but can be a sequence loss of facts for people of other countries.

Details

Official Sites:

Astronauta Films [Mexico] Official Site

Country:

Mexico Spain

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

5 April 2018 (Mexico)

Also Known As:

La 4a compañía

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$158,560

Company Credits

Production Co:

Alebrije Cine y Video, Alebrije Cine y Video, Arte Mecánica Producciones

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39:1