Oso Blanco

2009

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The history of Puerto Rico's largest and oldest prison as seen by one of the inmates who lived in it for 47 years. Known as el jibaro this man recounts the nightmares he went through as he l... Read allThe history of Puerto Rico's largest and oldest prison as seen by one of the inmates who lived in it for 47 years. Known as el jibaro this man recounts the nightmares he went through as he lived and saw the horrors first hand. From the civil war that ensued in the 1970's which re... Read allThe history of Puerto Rico's largest and oldest prison as seen by one of the inmates who lived in it for 47 years. Known as el jibaro this man recounts the nightmares he went through as he lived and saw the horrors first hand. From the civil war that ensued in the 1970's which resulted in hundreds of murders inside the prison and the birth of 2 of puertorico's most no... Read all

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- Christian Suau

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8.3/10

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- Christian Suau

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5/10

The documentary shows what happened in the old Oso Blanco and the friendship between an inmate and a guard .

In 2006, film directors Christian Suau and Ramiro Millán were at the Río Piedras State Penitentiary, Os Blanco, as part of the filming of a music video. Long before shared curiosity about the hidden in these walls stories, but when the filmmakers saw the friendship between the prisoner Angel Luis Feliciano, alias "El Jibaro," and the guard Cesar Flores, became convinced that he had to tell a story framed in this prison complex. Suau explained that the film is divided into two parts: what happened in those corridors and the friendship between the inmate and the prison guard. "They are two chapters. The first is hell known as Oso Blanco, as the protagonist. The second is the human history of friendship between the prisoner's longest locked in the correction system and the guard, "said the filmmaker, currently referring to disabled- place where the two most notorious camps of the correctional system were developed of Puerto Rico: "net Association" and "27".