Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999)
- Original title
- Pantaleón y las visitadoras
- Directed by
- Francisco Lombardi
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country
- Peru, Spain
- Runtime
- 2h 24m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 156 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A dedicated army captain is given an unusual secret assignment to set up a prostitution service for soldiers in the jungle. He throws himself into the task with military precision, leading to absurd and bureaucratic chaos.
wrysatiricalabsurdmatter-of-factbureaucraticdeadpanunexpectedcomedic
What happens
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (Spanish: Pantaleón y las visitadoras) is a 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Francisco J. Lombardi from a screenplay written by Giovanna Pollarolo and Enrique Moncloa. It is based on the eponymous comic novel by Mario Vargas Llosa. The film was chosen as Peru's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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