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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Hector Babenco
Genres: Prison Film, Drama
Released Date: 2003 May 14, 2004 (USA
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Summary:
Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco directs the confrontational drama Carandiru, based on the best-selling novel by Dr. Drauzio Varella. The episodic story is set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention (referred to as Carandiru), one of Latin America's largest prison systems. The doctor (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) is an oncologist who arrives in the jail to test patients for HIV i... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Luis Carlos Vasconcelos - (Doctor)
Milhem Cortaz - (Dagger)
Milton Goncalves - (Chico)
Ivan de Almeida - (Ebony)
Ailton Graca - (Highness)
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Review:
Hector Babenco co-scripted (with Victor Nava and Fernando Bonassi) and shot this epic adaptation of Drauzio Varella's novel, woven around the infamous Carandiru prison massacre of 1992. It's a giant muckraker of a movie: Babenco sets up the two-and-a-half hour tale in a short story format, by delving - ever so briefly - into the back... Continue >>

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