Cinematic background from Carandiru 2003 - 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.

Carandiru

2003

Crime, Drama

Directors:
Hector Babenco
Writers:
Hector Babenco, Dráuzio Varella, Victor Navas, Fernando Bonassi
Official poster of Carandiru 2003 directed by [object Object]
A group of men standing around in a kitchen preparing food
A man in a jail cell looking through the bars
A man standing in a jail cell looking at the camera
A man walking in the rain with no shirt on