Carandiru

91 Pictures

7.1	Rating (303 ratings)
7.5	IMDB rating

Add to favorites

Edit page

Buy at Amazon

Directed by

Hector Babenco

Starring (View all)

Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Médico - Physician

Milton Gonçalves
Chico

Ivan de Almeida
Nego Preto - Ebony

Ailton Graça
Majestade

Maria Luisa Mendonça
Dalva

Aida Leiner
Rosirene

Rodrigo Santoro
Lady Di

Gero Camilo
Sem Chance - No Way

Written by (View all)

Hector Babenco
writer

Fernando Bonassi
writer

Lists

133 votes

6,006 Movies For a Post-Covid World... (6013 items)
list by ToonHead2102

Published 13 years, 2 months ago

14 comments

60 votes

Brazilian Cinema (1048 items)
list by Nusch

Published 4 months, 1 week ago

7 comments

37 votes

Queijo com Goiabada (100 items)
list by B374

Published 15 years ago

7 comments

34 votes

World Cinema - Brazil (73 items)
list by jaytoast

Published 13 years, 10 months ago

7 comments

25 votes

Movies watched in 2024 (121 items)
list by Nusch

Published 6 months, 3 weeks ago

View all Carandiru lists

Carandiru Videos

Carandiru

337 Views

Added 16 years ago

View all Carandiru videos

Cover art, photos and screenshots

1 vote

View all Carandiru pictures (88 more)

Film based on real life experiences of doctor 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 killed 111 men.

Release date: 11 April 2003
UPC: 043396019430