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The setting is grim, but Carandiru is easily one of Brazilian film-maker Hector Babenco's most living, thriving works, with scores of powerful performances and an engaging style underscoring the cathartic power of story-telling. Based on a bestselling novel, Carandiru concerns an oncologist (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) who treats patients at Sao Paulo's House of Detention, a terrible place largely policed from within by long-time prisoners. The doctor is specifically interested in collecting blood samples for an HIV study, but the more prisoners open up to him, the more compassionate and committed he becomes about their survival.
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date: 26 July 2004
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5035822485136
Release date: 26 July 2004
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5035822485136
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