Overview - Carandiru

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Runtime: 145 minutes

Homepage: Carandiru

Budget

$3,684,600.00

Revenue

$10,782,155.00

Spoken Languages

  • Português

Production companies

  • Name: Oscar Kramer S.A.

    Production country Argentina

  • Name: BR Petrobrás

    Production country Brazil

  • Name: HB Filmes

    Production country Brazil

  • Name: Columbia TriStar Filmes do Brasil

    Production country Brazil

  • Name: Sony Pictures Classics

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Globo Filmes

    Production country Brazil

Overview

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 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.

Cast

  • Name: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

    Character: Doutor (Physician)

    Popularity: 0.1631

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  • Name: Milton Gonçalves

    Character: Chico

    Popularity: 0.4085

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  • Name: Ivan de Almeida

    Character: Nego Preto (Ebony)

    Popularity: 0.1201

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  • Name: Aílton Graça

    Character: Majestade (Majesty)

    Popularity: 0.1862

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  • Name: Maria Luísa Mendonça

    Character: Dalva

    Popularity: 0.2588

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  • Name: Aida Leiner

    Character: Rosirene

    Popularity: 0.1462

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  • Name: Rodrigo Santoro

    Character: Lady Di

    Popularity: 1.9048

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  • Name: Gero Camilo

    Character: Sem Chance (No Way)

    Popularity: 0.2322

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