Carandiru is a 2003 Brazilian and Argentine film directed by Hector 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 America. The story culminates with the 1992 massacre where 111 prisoners were killed, 102 by Police. The film was the last thing the prison was used for before it was demolished in 2002, one year before the release of the film. This... episodic story is set in São Paulo's notorious prison Carandiru, one of Latin America's largest and most violent prison systems. Dr. Drauzio Varella arrives at the prison as a volunteer to test the prisoners for the deadly HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding and rampant circulation of drugs, the Doctor realizes much of the prison is controlled by the inmates. They decorate their cells and have an established pecking order. The strong inhabit messy individual suites and the weak are jammed together, as many as sixteen sharing a 100-square-foot cell.
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| Release date: | 2003 |
| Directed by: | Hector Babenco |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 145 Minutes |
| Producer: | Oscar Kramer, Hector Babenco |
| Editor: | Mauro Alice |
| Music by: | André Abujamra |
| Cinematography: | Walter Carvalho |
| Screenplay by: | Hector Babenco, Fernando Bonassi, Victor Navas |
| Adapted from: | Estação Carandiru |