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 discovers the victim 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.
Starring: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de Almeida, Ailton Graça, Maria Luísa Mendonça
Produced by: Daniel Filho, Anna Van Steen, Afonso Coaracy, Walter Carvalho, Walter Carvalho
Genre: Drama
Original Runtime: 148 minutes
Release Date: 3/21/2003
IMDb Rating: 7.5/10 by 255 users