Mike Siegel

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Trucker Movie

Mike Siegel

Kris Kristofferson, Ernest Borgnine

For cineasts worldwide Sam Peckinpah is best known for his 1969 masterpiece The Wild Bunch. Yet for the general 'mainstream' audience, the film everybody seems to know when the name Peckinpah is mentioned, is Convoy, Peckinpah's biggest success at the box office. But the entertaining actioner that had turned out to be a commercial winner and a public favorite in fact had a very troubled production history.

Pendechos!

Mike Siegel, Mike Siegel

Pendechos is Mike Siegel's love letter to one of his earliest influences - Robert Rodriguez's EL MARIACHI. The story of this action-packed road movie centers around to unequal brothers, a suitcase with stolen documents, the local mob and a bunch of weird characters they meet along the road. Welcome to the world of German no-budget film-making!