Netflix Releases Mexican Film About Capture of ‘El Chapo’
The thriller follows two federal police officers who found Guzmán after he escaped through a drainage system and ended his second prison flight.
- On Friday, Netflix released the Mexican film 'La captura,' depicting the 2016 arrest of Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán from the perspective of two federal police officers who intercepted him in Los Mochis.
- Based on two accounts by journalist Bernardo Esquinca, the production covers the Mexican Navy operation where Guzmán was captured in Los Mochis after escaping through a drainage system.
- Actors Alfonso Herrera and Noé Hernández star as the officers who intercept the Sinaloa Cartel leader in a stolen vehicle and must navigate threats, bribery, and potential rescue attempts.
- Reflecting on the project, Herrera told Excelsior, "I thought it was a story worth telling," emphasizing the film's focus on the officers' perspective rather than broader cartel history.
- Following a limited theatrical run in Mexican cinemas, Director Chava Cartas's film joined Netflix's international catalog Friday, expanding the service's true-crime drama offerings globally.
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On the occasion of Netflix's film 'The Capture', this is the real story of Operation Black Swan, which was made to stop Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Another film about Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán for the lot... although this time with a twist: far from romanticizing the violent capo, it focuses on the cops who captured him and rejected his bribes to let him go.
Noé Hernández interprets Héctor Rosales and Alfonso “Poncho” Herrera as Arturo Carmona, fictitious agents; Héctor Kotsifakis embodies the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in a fiction based on real facts
Cd. of Mexico.- What would a Mexican who has suffered the violence caused by drug trafficking say to Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán when he had it face to face? The film La Captación, about how the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested, raised that question in Alfonso Herrera and Noé Hernández. In the film by Chava Cartas, who arrives this Friday in Netflix, the actors interpret the two federal policemen who by chance arrested him in 2016 in Los …
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