Carandiru
Director: Héctor Babenco
Cast: Aílton Graça, Aida Leiner, Gero Camilo, Ivan de Almeida, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Maria Luísa Mendonça, Milton Gonçalves, Rodrigo Santoro
Synopsis:
Cast: Aílton Graça, Aida Leiner, Gero Camilo, Ivan de Almeida, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Maria Luísa Mendonça, Milton Gonçalves, Rodrigo Santoro
Synopsis:
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin Americas 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 Paulos 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.
MRQE Metric: 65
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Lewis Beale
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Paul Castro
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Alexander Rojas
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Graeme Clark
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Cole Smithey
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Mark Harris
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Scott Tobias
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Erin Oke
Exclaim!
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