Carandiru
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MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hector Babenco
Genre: Prison Film, Drama
Release Date: 2003
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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 t... Full Summary >>
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. Continue >>
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