The film is based on “Carandiru Station,” a memoir by Drauzio Varella, a physician, who worked at the prison. “Carandiru” begins in the late ’80s with the arrival of Varella (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) ...
C arandiru is a sprawling prison drama that seeks, by turns, to endear itself and then traumatize its audience. Loosely based on Dr. Drauzio Varella's experiences inside Sao Paulo's Carandiru ...
Argentinian-born director Hector Babenco returns to jail for “Carandiru,” but if the effort is laudable, it is no match for his 1985 cellblock drama “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” “Carandiru” is named ...
Hector Babenco’s brutal yet involving prison drama, “Carandiru,” immediately drops us from high in the sky above Sao Paulo directly down inside the dark, dank walls of the infamous Casa de Detencao -- ...
INMATES at an overcrowded Brazilian prison create a fascinating society for themselves in “Carandiru.” That’s the major strength of this latest film from Hector Babenco, an Argentina-born director ...
correiobraziliense.com.br: Número de mortos no Rio ultrapassa o do massacre do Carandiru
Três décadas após o Carandiru, o país revive o horror em nova operação policial no Rio, com mais de 130 mortos Trinta anos separam o Brasil de duas das mais sangrentas operações policiais da história ...
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest ...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Hector Babenco’s prison drama “Carandiru” has broken box office and attendance records for a local pic and is poised to overtake “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” for top spot ...