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The Penal Colony (1970) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1970 · 67 mins · Spanish
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- Directed by
- Raúl Ruiz
- Starring
- Aníbal Reyna, Luis Alarcón, Mónica Echeverría, Nelson Villagra
A foreign journalist reaches a remote Pacific island, 200 mi off South America’s coast. Formerly a leper colony, then a prison, and later an UN‑mandated independent republic, its residents speak a hybrid Spanish‑English dialect yet still enforce the old penal rules. After reporting the pervasive torture and repression, she discovers the island’s true economy: it trades in news, trapping outsiders with its stories.
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