Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles

Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles

1986 · 77 min · ★ 6.0 · Documentary

This 1987 documentary is the only window into an experimental open-air penal colony in the Peruvian Amazon, which no camera has ever entered and has been rarely written about.

Directed by Walter Saxer · Written by Mario Vargas Llosa

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