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Varella, Drauzio, 1943- -- Drama.
Casa de Detenção (São Paulo, Brazil) -- Drama.
Physician and patient -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Drama.
Prisoners -- Medical care -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Drama.
Prison riots -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Drama.
Massacres -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Drama.
Motion pictures, Brazilian.
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Carandiru [digital videodisc] / Sony Pictures Classics e HB Filmes em associaçao Columbia TriStar do Brasil, Globo Filmes, BR Petrobrás apresentam ; produzido e dirigido por Hector Babenco ; roteiro, Victor Navas, Fernando Bonassi, Hector Babenco.
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2004.
Subjects
Varella, Drauzio, 1943- -- Drama.
Casa de Detenção (São Paulo, Brazil) -- Drama.
Physician and patient -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Drama.
Prisoners -- Medical care -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Drama.
Prison riots -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Drama.
Massacres -- Brazil -- São Paulo -- Drama.
Motion pictures, Brazilian.
ISBN:
1404941797
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in São Paulo's House of Detention, locally known as Carandiru. An oncologist arrives at the jail to test patients for HIV infection. Seeing the disease, overcrowding, and rampant circulation of drugs, the doctor comes to realize the internal power structure among the prisoners. Narratives develop, including the attempted murder of Dagger, the solitary confinement of Chico, and the romance between Lady Di and Too Bad. The doctor eventually begins to see the prisoners as survivors. Culminates with a violent conclusion: a dramatization of the October 2, 1992 prison riot known as the Carandiru Massacre, in which 111 prisoners are killed.
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MPAA rating: R; for strong bloody violence/carnage, language, sexuality and drug use.
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