Sueños de Hanssen

Patricia Ortega

Venezuela / 2004 / Fiction, Documentary / 32’0”I0502131

Sueños de Hanssen
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SYNOPSIS

In 1828, Simon Bolivar decided that the "Island of Providence", located in the Maracaibo Lake, would become a permanent asylum for people with Hansen's disease (leprosy). In 1985, the State closed it down and patients were transferred to the Cecilia Pimentel Hospital, also located in Zulia State.

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