Carandiru

Genres
Drama
Release Date/Year
2003
Point of View
prison police brutality attempted murder carandiru massaker sao paulo doctor
Description

Film based on real life experiences of doctor Drauzio Varella inside dreadful State penitentiary Carandiru, in S?o Paulo, Brazil, while he was doing a social work of Aids prevention. There he found hundreds of convicts living under degrading conditions. The situation came to a climax in 1992, when in order to smother a rebellion, police force killed 111 men.