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By Stephen Holden. May 14, 2004. The human life teeming through ''Carandiru,'' Hector Babenco's sprawling portrait of Brazil's criminal class crowded within a notorious São Paulo penitentiary,...
28 maj 2004 · Hector Babenco’s “Carandiru” is a drama that adds a human dimension to that Dantean vision. Shot on location inside a notorious prison in Sao Paolo, it shows 8,000 men jammed into space meant for 4,000, and enforcing their own laws in a place their society has abandoned.
8 kwi 2004 · Based on the bestseller by real-life prison doc Dráuzio Varella (played by Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos), the sprawling Carandiru is funny, violent, and shocking. In short, it's worth doing time...
Carandiru is the true story of the greatest massacre of prisoners in the world. It happened in 1992, in São Paulo, after a rebellion in the greatest Brazilian penitentiary. Doctor Drauzio Varella has written a successful best-seller about this sad event.
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…
Carandiru is based on the non-fiction best-seller Estacao Carandiru by medic Drauzio Varella, about the 12 years he spent working in jail as an Aids doctor. It is not a conventional prison film...
1 lut 2004 · This film is a record, shot by the prisoners themselves, of the last seven months of Brazil’s Carandiru prison, site of the notorious massacre of eleven inmates in the ‘90s. We all want to go to jail, though we’d rather it was from the comfort of an armchair and not in person.
