Arturo Ripstein Movies

Documentary about a Mexico City prison, notorious for holding political prisoners and for civil rights abuses committed there.

In the documentary about the Lecumberri prison (El palacio negro, 1976), which a few months later would be closed, Arturo Ripstein filmed, among many other things, the crunch of political prisoners. Today, almost 30 years after that filming, he meets again with those young men, guerrillas and...