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The Employer and the Employee
2021 Uruguayan film
The Employer and the Employee (Spanish: El empleado y el patrón) is a 2021 drama film written and directed by Manolo Nieto.[1] It tells the story of a young man to whom his father entrusts the administration of his lands and must take on the obligation of hiring a new staff to make the ranch work properly, where an unexpected and irreparable event will happen.[2] It stars Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Justina Bustos, Cristian Borges, Fátima Quintanilla and Jean Pierre Noher.[3] It was selected as the Uruguayan entry in the Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[4]
The film had its world premiere on July 9, 2021, at the Cannes Film Festival[5] and then had a limited release in theaters in Argentina on January 13, 2022, under the distribution of Latido Films.[6]