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Oct 13, 2022 · ‘Sepa, Nuestro Señor de los Milagros’ Review: A Prison in the Jungle A documentary from the 1980s, now premiering in a restored version, is an eye-opening visit to a Peruvian penal...
- 77 min
- Glenn Kenny
Oct 14, 2022 · Sepa: Nuestro Señor de los milagros: Directed by Walter Saxer. With Burkhard Driest, Mario Vargas Llosa. Sepa is an open-air penal colony created in the Amazon by the Peruvian government in 1951. Tasked with growing crops on these lands, the inmates were permitted to roam freely, yet they soon found themselves forgotten by their country.
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- Documentary
- Walter Saxer
- 2022-10-14
Peru, Switzerland • 1987. Nuestro Señor de los Milagros Our Lord of the Miracles, is the name of a swamp-glittering prison colony in the remote Peruvian jungle on the Rio Sepa. This is the dumping ground where the worst prisons in the country send their toughest of the tough.
Oct 14, 2022 · Having languished in a closet for more than 30 years, this newly rediscovered film is a unique documentary record of a bold and troubling experiment in criminal justice.
- Walter Saxer
- Documentary
The record of an open-air penal colony, created by the Peruvian government, deep in the Amazonian jungle. The inmates roamed freely and communed with their families, yet they were soon forgotten by their country and the world at large.
Oct 14, 2022 · A collaboration in between Walter Saxer, the producer of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, and the Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Sepa, Nuestra Señor de los Milagros observes an open-air penal colony of the same name, created in 1951 by the Peruvian government in the Amazonian jungle.
Oct 14, 2022 · The film opens with TV news footage from the infamous riot at the El Sexto jail in the capital of Peru, Lima, that occurred in March 1984. There, a group of prisoners led by Luis García “Pilatos” ( Pilate) Mendoza took 14 men as hostages and asked for means of liberation.
