Carandiru
Drama, Foreign · 2003Film based on real life experiences of doctor Drauzio Varella inside dreadful State penitentiary Carandiru, in São Paulo, Brazil, while he was doing a social work of Aids prevention. There he found hundreds of convicts living under degrading conditions. The situation came to a climax in 1992, when in order to smother a rebellion, police force killed 111 men.
- Runtime 2 hours 28 mins
- Released 21st March, 2003
- Rating R
- Director Hector Babenco
- Writer Hector Babenco Fernando Bonassi
