Film based on real life experiences of doctor Drauzio Varella inside dreadful State penitentiary Carandiru, in São 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.
Milton Gonçalves | Chico | |
Ivan de Almeida | Ebony | |
Ailton Graça | Majestad | |
Maria Luísa Mendonça | Dalva | |
Aida Leiner | Rosirene | |
Rodrigo Santoro | Lady Di |
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