The Penal Colony

Year: 1970

Runtime: 67 mins

Language: Spanish

Director: Raúl Ruiz

Drama

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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