Visit...

1-World Globes
Online Showroom
World Globes
of every size and description

1-World Festival of Foreign Films
HOME      CHOOSE-A-COUNTRY      SEARCH      POST-A-REVIEW      CONTACT 1-WORLD

"Carandiru"
2003
Directed by Hector Babenco

A gripping and very realistic look inside one of Latin America's largest and most punishing prisons, Sao Paulo's House of Detention aka Carandiru, from acclaimed director Hector Babenco (Kiss of the Spider Woman). Through the eyes of the prison's new doctor (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) several intertwining episodes play out which highlight the drugs and disease, corruption, power struggles, over-crowding that ran rampant through the confines, culminating in a gruesome account of the Carandiru Massacre, an October 2, 1992 riot that shook the prison to its core. "One of the best prison movies ever made" (Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune). In Portuguese with English subtitles. 145 minutes.