Film

Carandiru

2003 · 2h 25m · Drama

Inside here nobody is guilty. Do you believe that?

IMDb

7.6

Rotten Tomatoes

68%

Metacritic

71

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.

Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos

Doutor (Physician)

Milton Gonçalves

Chico

Ivan de Almeida

Nego Preto (Ebony)

Aílton Graça

Majestade (Majesty)

Maria Luísa Mendonça

Dalva

Aida Leiner

Rosirene

Rodrigo Santoro

Lady Di

Gero Camilo

Sem Chance (No Way)

Lázaro Ramos

Ezequiel

Caio Blat

Deusdete

Wagner Moura

Zico

Julia Ianina

Francineide

Sabrina Greve

Catarina

Floriano Peixoto

Antônio Carlos

Ricardo Blat

Claudiomiro

Vanessa Gerbelli

Célia

• Héctor BabencoDirector · Screenplay · Producer
• Fernando BonassiScreenplay
• Victor NavasScreenplay
• Dráuzio VarellaNovel
• Óscar KramerProducer
• Rui PiresProducer
• Walter CarvalhoDirector of Photography
• André AbujamraOriginal Music Composer
• Mauro AliceEditor
• Vivian GolombekCasting

Release date

April 11, 2003

Status

Released

Original language

Portuguese

Runtime

2h 25m

Rated

R

Budget

$3,684,600

Revenue

$10,782,155

Genres

Drama

• 

  Escape from Alcatraz

  1979

• 

  A Short Film About Killing

  1988

• 

  White Oleander

  2002

• 

  A Prayer Before Dawn

  2018

• 

  Underdogs

  2008

• 

  Inferno

  1999

• 

  Prison Nurse

  1938

• 

  Windom's Way

  1957

• 

  I Demand Payment

  1938

• 

  Godsend

  2004

• 

  Dr. T & the Women

  2000

• 

  Hothead

  1979