Film · Documentary
El Comité (2006)
1 h 33 minDocumentary2006
A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuador. The prisoners find they suddenly have a voice after they take 360 people hostage, and a pattern of abuse and corruption by the guards toward the prisoners becomes clear after lengthy negotiations.
- Director
- Mateo Herrera
- Writers
- Mateo Herrera
- Country
- Spain
- Language
- Spanish
- Release date
- March 26, 2006
