Carandiru

Name: Carandiru
Director: Héctor Babenco
Genre: Drama
Released: 2003-01-01
Cast: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de Almeida

Drama

★ 7.62003Héctor Babenco2h25

Original language Portuguese

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.

Main cast

Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos · Milton Gonçalves · Ivan de Almeida

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