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Captain Pantoja and the Special Services

Pantaleón y las visitadoras

1999

A rigidly dutiful Peruvian army officer is given a bizarre secret assignment: to organize a discreet corps of visitors to service soldiers at remote jungle outposts — a task he pursues with absurd, ruinous diligence. A satirical comedy from Mario Vargas Llosa's novel.

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