• Director(s):

    DAMOISEL (MATHILDE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2017

  • Language(s):

    English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

In 19th century Central America, a few entrepreneurial cowboys built an empire that enslaved populations and corrupted governments for over 100 years. The United Fruit Company thrived on unregulated capitalism; this film tells its story and that of its pioneers who feared neither God nor Man.

Until the 1970s, a multinational set up a monopoly by combining violence, repression, corruption, environmental destruction and a formidable marketing machine. It turned an unknown fruit into an instrument of fortune and domination.
The saga of a handful of conquerors who built an empire in Central America and invented the methods of one of the very first multinationals.
A dramatic tale of cynical adventurers, of visionaries of a modern and crippling capitalism, told like a Western.
Beneath the story lies the model of a multinational society that is still in operation today, and which leading economists analyze in the film.