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Carandiru (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Carandirú
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Cartagena Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Arabic ( Subtitles )
Czech ( Subtitles )
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Greek ( Subtitles )
Hebrew ( Subtitles )
Hindi ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Subtitles )
Icelandic ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Polish ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
139 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
Argentina ( Latin America, Mexico )
Brazil ( Latin America, Mexico )

Directed By:
Hector Babenco

Written By:
Hector Babenco
Fernando Bonassi

Actors:
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos ..... Physician
Milton Gonçalves ..... Chico
Ivan de Almeida ..... Ebony
Ailton Graça ..... Majestade
Maria Luisa Mendonça ..... Dalva
Aida Leiner ..... Rosirene
Rodrigo Santoro ..... Lady Di
Rita Cadillac ..... Herself
Gero Camilo ..... No Way
Lázaro Ramos ..... Ezequiel
Caio Blat ..... Deusdete
Wagner Moura ..... Zico
Júlia Ianina ..... Francineide
Sabrina Greve ..... Catarina
Floriano Peixoto ..... Antônio Carlos

Synopsis:

The human life teeming through this sprawling portrait of Brazil's criminal class crowded within a notorious penitentiary exudes a throbbing flesh-and-blood intensity that's so compelling it's impossible to avert your eyes. Watching this messy epic feels a little like being jammed into an un-air-conditioned subway car on a steamy summer night as it rattles through an urban wasteland. At any second, things could explode. And eventually they do. It is the 1980's, and the setting is Sao Paolo's real-life House of Detention, which was torn down in 2002, a decade after a riot led to the massacre of 111 inmates by the police. The film is a splashy return to form by the celebrated director of "Pixote" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman." In examining social ills, it interweaves multiple stories of the prisoners' lives as viewed by a doctor volunteering his services. Below its documentary-like sprawl, "Carandiru" is a hands-on movie passionately engaged in its characters' personal dramas. Just when it threatens to go soft, it erupts in what may be the most horrific prison riot ever filmed.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 03 June, 2009.

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