The Penal Colony (1970)

La colonia penal

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.

Date of release
1970-01-01
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 7m
Genres
Drama
Director
Raúl Ruiz

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Interesting facts

The Penal Colony is a 1970 Chilean drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It is based on Franz Kafka's 1919 short story "In the Penal Colony".

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