Film

Lecumberri, the Dark Palace

5.819771h 50mDocumentary

Director: Arturo Ripstein
Year: 1977

The Lecumberri Penitentiary was one of the most notorious prisons in 20th-century Mexico, known for the notorious inmates who were held there and the appalling living conditions inside. This documentary records daily life in the prison shortly before its closure.

Top cast

Emilio Ebergenyi

Self - Narrator

Tomás Pérez Turrent

Self - Narrator

Alberto Ulloa

Self

Directed by

Arturo Ripstein

Written by

José Emilio Pacheco, Miguel Necoechea, Tomás Pérez Turrent, Arturo Ripstein

Produced by

Hernán Littin