- available formats: 35mm

Carandiru - a film by Hector Babenco
From the Director of Pixote and Kiss of the Spider Woman

Official Selection
Toronto International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Sundance Film Festiva
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"So compelling that itís impossible to avert your eyes... Undeniably the work of an artist."
- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES

"Harrowing, realistic, humanistic."
- David Sterrit, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

In his ninth full-length feature, Hector Babenco creates a loyal adaptation of the book Carandiru Station by Drauzio Varella. The film follows the point of view of a doctor who makes regular visits to the S„o Paulo Penitentiary and hears hundreds of prisonersí stories, about love and passion, crime and friendship. He is also the witness of the survivors of the 1992 massacre that left 111 people dead.

 

2003, Brazil, 146 minutes, Portuguese with English subtitles.