Carandiru

Name: Carandiru
Genre: Drama
Released: 2003-03-21
Duration: 2 h 25 min

7.6

Drama Historical Drama

2003•Duration: 2h 25min

Director: Héctor Babenco

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Realistic Intimate Claustrophobic Brutal Bleak Measured Oppressive Dense Documentary-style

Storyline

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.