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  1. Carandiru is a 2003 Brazilian drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. It is based on the book Estação Carandiru by Dr. Drauzio Varella, a physician and AIDS specialist, who is portrayed in the film by Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos. Carandiru tells some of the stories that occurred in Carandiru Penitentiary, which was the biggest prison in Latin ...

  2. Apr 11, 2003 · Carandiru: Directed by Hector Babenco. With Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de Almeida, Ailton Graça. Stories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America.

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    • Crime, Drama
    • Hector Babenco
    • 2003-04-11
  3. Apr 7, 2008 · Hailed as the triumphant return of Hector Babenco, you may be forgiven for asking, "Who he?" As the Brazilian director of Kiss Of The Spider Woman and Ironwe...

    • Apr 7, 2008
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  5. Mar 21, 2003 · Carandiru. Rent Carandiru on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. A gritty, poignant, and shocking prison movie. A doctor (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) listens to ...

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    • Hector Babenco
    • R
    • Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
  6. May 28, 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. The film, based on life, climaxes with a 1992 police attack on the prison ...

  7. Film based on the real-life experiences of Dr. 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 ...

  8. Mar 21, 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 ...

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