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Carandiru

Where:

🇧🇷 Brazil

When:

The 1990s

Inside here nobody is guilty. Do you believe that? — 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 discovers the victim of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.

Released in 2003 — 148 minutes

Genre:

Drama

Language:

Portuguese