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A Sony Pictures Classics Release
Carandiru (2004)
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Year of U.S. Release: 2004

Starring: Caio Blat, Gero Camilo, Milton Goncalves, Nelson Machado, Maria Luisa Mendonca, Lazaro Ramos, Rodrigo Santoro, Luis Vasconcuelos.
Director: Hector Babenco
Screenwriter(s): Hector Babenco, Victor Navas
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Genre(s): Crime, Drama, Foreign
U.S. Release Date: May 14, 2004
U.S. DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004
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Rated Restricted for strong bloody violence/carnage, language, sexuality, and drug use.
arrowPlot Summary:
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 shrewd balancing act between women and heists; Old Chico, a Zen master in the ways of the dungeon, at last on the brink of his long-awaited freedom; Warden Pires, who oversees the prison with the perspicacity of a tightrope walker; Ebony, the true leader of the inmate community and the arbiter of all its contentions; the religious conversion of the assasin, Dagger, the rise and fall of the surfer Ezequiel; Antonio Carlos, Claudiomiro and, coming between them like a knife, and depraved Dina; the existentialist philosopher No Way and his love affair with the divine lady Di. The narrative of the film is crafted like a puzzle with one story giving way to another for of surrealist, uniquely Brazilian collage of tragedy.
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