The Penal Colony

01/01/1970

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1hr 7min

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Drama

STORY

A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite democratic structures, the inhabitants--who speak a strange dialect composed of Spanish and English--still obey the old prison rules. After sending back detailed accounts of the torture and repression seen everywhere, the journalist realizes that she has fallen into the trap created for her by the islanders: lacking natural resources, the island's main export is news.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Mónica Echeverría
  • Luis Alarcón
  • Aníbal Reyna
  • Nelson Villagra

    Directors

  • Raúl Ruiz
  • Fernando Garcia

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Alcaman

    Production Countries

  • Chile

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish