Fiction based on real-life horror can be the most disturbing of all. This Brazilian movie is not for those with a weak stomach.
The Colonia Hospital Asylum in Barbacena was founded in 1903 and survived for the next eighty years. During that period, the so-called hospital was used as a dumping ground for those who caused their respectable families shame: alcoholics, epileptics, wives no longer wanted. pregnant unmarried daughters, prostitutes causing trouble for their johns, homosexuals, illegitimate children, homeless people, enemies of the local elite or those simply considered backward or retarded. With a capacity of 5000, during the time it existed, it is estimated that more than 60,000 died - only around 30% suffered from mental illness on admission.
Those interred were routinely tortured for stepping out of line - cold showers and hosing down, forced to walk around naked, beaten and more horrifically, ECT - even after the practice was discredited elsewhere.
The movie is fictional but based on a common story. Andreia Horta stars as a young woman, pregnant by her boyfriend, who is sent to the institution as a punishment. Likely to do well on the festival circuit, the movie builds upon a TV series - Colonia (2021).
The movie also has a role for Rafaella Mandelli fresh from the TV series Mila no Multiverso (Mila in the Multiverse) in which a young woman seeks to find her mother in the multiverse.
The Colonia Hospital Asylum in Barbacena was founded in 1903 and survived for the next eighty years. During that period, the so-called hospital was used as a dumping ground for those who caused their respectable families shame: alcoholics, epileptics, wives no longer wanted. pregnant unmarried daughters, prostitutes causing trouble for their johns, homosexuals, illegitimate children, homeless people, enemies of the local elite or those simply considered backward or retarded. With a capacity of 5000, during the time it existed, it is estimated that more than 60,000 died - only around 30% suffered from mental illness on admission.
Those interred were routinely tortured for stepping out of line - cold showers and hosing down, forced to walk around naked, beaten and more horrifically, ECT - even after the practice was discredited elsewhere.
The movie is fictional but based on a common story. Andreia Horta stars as a young woman, pregnant by her boyfriend, who is sent to the institution as a punishment. Likely to do well on the festival circuit, the movie builds upon a TV series - Colonia (2021).
The movie also has a role for Rafaella Mandelli fresh from the TV series Mila no Multiverso (Mila in the Multiverse) in which a young woman seeks to find her mother in the multiverse.
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