About this title: Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco directs the confrontational drama Carandiru, based on the best-selling novel by Dr. Drauzio Varella. The episodic story is set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention (referred to as Carandiru), one of Latin America's largest prison systems. The doctor (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) is an oncologist who arrives in the jail ...
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
Studio: Columbia Tristar
Date: 2004
UPC:043396019430
Description: Starring Rodrigo Santoro, Milton Gonçalves, Luiz Carlos Vasconellos, María Luisa Mendonça. Run time: 145 minutes. Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1. Based on the book "Estaçao Carandiru" by Drauzio Varella. In Portuguese with English subtitles. A compelling about film about life in a notorious prison in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where during a riot in 1992 111 of the inmates were brutally murdered by an assaulting police squad. The central figures in the drama is a doctor who treats the ailments of the ... read more
Format: DVD
Studio: Sony Pictures
Date: 9/21/2004
UPC:043396019430
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Widescreen
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
UPC:043396019430
Description: Caio Blat; Luis Carlos Vasconcelos; Milhem Cortaz; Milton Goncalves; Ivan de Almeida; Ailton Graca; Maria Luiza Mendonca;... Fine. Run time: 148 mins. Language: Portuguese. read more
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