The Prince

2019 [SPANISH]

Action / Drama

8
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 1916 1.9K

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Plot summary

Chile, 1970. During a night of heavy drinking, Jaime, a lonely 20-year-old young man, is sentenced to prison. There, he meets “The Stallion”, an older and respected man in whom he finds protection, and from whom he learns about love and loyalty. But as their relationship grows stronger, “The Stallion” faces the violent power struggles within the prison.

Director

Sebastián Muñoz Photo
Sebastián Muñoz

Top cast

Paola Volpato Photo
Paola Volpato as Elena
Alfredo Castro Photo
Alfredo Castro as Potro
Lucas Balmaceda Photo
Lucas Balmaceda as Danny El Rucio
José Antonio Raffo Photo
José Antonio Raffo as Gendarme López
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878.72 MB
1280*682
Spanish 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 35 min
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1.76 GB
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Spanish 5.1
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 35 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by johannes2000-1 7 / 10

A little bit better than expected.

I didn't expect too much, I thought (with some wishful thinking, I admit!) that this would be some flimsy soft-erotic gay prison thing. But to my surprise it turned out to be more serious than that, providing an actually involving story of a young guy who lands in a Chilean prison somewhere in the 70's during the Allende regime (I didn't feel by the way that this setting added anything substantial to the premise) and as a newbie is confronted with the existing prison rules and culture, especially with the sexual aspects of it. He gets sexually and emotionally involved with an older inmate, with all kinds of positive and negative consequences.The biggest part of the movie is set in the prison, and this convinces the most. The smaller part (by way of flash-backs) in which we see how young Jaime came to commit the crime for which he was incarcerated, is rather fragmentary and felt a bit rushed. It leaves Jaime's background almost totally blank, so his sudden outburst into a jealous rage comes totally out of the blue.Although there isn't happening that much (there's a lot more action in every single episode of Oz!), you keep being interested in how things will evolve. Apart from one pivotal incident towards the end of the movie, there's hardly any violence between all the inmates, but instead of that a surprising amount of intimacy and emotionally caring for each other. Touchingly illustrated when all inmates respectfully come to offer their condolences to Jaime when his protector and lover is killed.There is a fair amount of very graphic gay sex, but I guess you could call it functional in this specific story. Still praise to the actors who had the courage to participate, it cannot have been easy.Apart from the earlier mentioned flaws, I do have some other to mention. The leader inmate is called The Stud, but it is hard to relate that nickname to the middle-aged and rather frail looking actor Alfredo Castro. And biggest let-down to me was the way main character Jaime (The Prince) was played by Juan Carlos Maldonado. He mostly acted like an autistic nerd, walking and talking like a robot, being reasonably good-looking but for the rest totally uncharismatic and never (at least in my opinion) deserving that illuster nickname The Prince.
Reviewed by EdgarST 5 / 10

Is There a Stallion in the House?

Pedestrian adaptation of the only novel written by Mario Cruz, a little-known work from the 1970s (which I don't know, so I cannot talk about it). The result is a melodrama of sex between inmates, with clichéd situations and lots of nudity, sodomy and erections, and with allusions to the days of Salvador Allende, just because: you just change the bell-bottoms and it can be anytime, anywhere.The worst is the ill-advised choice of Alfredo Castro as The Stallion, who changes partners at his whim and seduces the young inmate that has just arrived in his cell. Castro is a good actor... but a "stallion"...? It would have been more convincing if the character's name was " Old Goat ". Gastón Pauls would have seem a better choice for the role.P. S. The film includes the last film performance by the beautiful Lucas Balmaceda as El Rucio, before becoming Lux Pascal, equally pretty as a girl. But Lucas was very handsome... I don't understand those "transformations".
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