Carandiru (2003)

The story is loosely adapted from the book “Estacao Carandiru” (Carandiru Station) by Dr. Drauzio Varella, which sold more than 300,000 copies in the first 60 weeks and an average of sales of 7,000 copies each month thereafter.

The film recounts the experience of a doctor working at the House of Detention (where 7,800 men serve time in a location originally intended to house a maximum of 3,000). The doctor first came to the prison in the late 1980s, to implement an AIDS prevention project. Upon observing the prisoners’ deplorable state of health, he was moved to volunteer his services on a weekly basis. As his efforts began to bear results, he gradually earned the respect of the prison community. Respect led to the sharing of confidences. Visits with ailing prisoners became the context for sharing of lively and touching personal stories. In our film, encounters in the infirmary become a window onto the everyday life of the criminal underworld.

We come to know the rapist Gilson, tried and sentenced by the Law Behind Bars; Zico and Deusdete, inseparable half brothers who, in jail, become each other’s assassins; Highness and his

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