Carandiru Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Carandiru

Director: Hector Babenco

Starring: Caio Blat • Gero Camilo • Milton Goncalves • Nelson Machado • Maria Luisa Mendonca

R Crime N/A

11% WILL SEE 89% WON'T SEE

Plot: 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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Dec 2004

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Parent Rating: R Restricted for strong bloody violence/carnage, language, sexuality, and drug use
Runtime: N/A
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Language: English

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Carandiru was released in on Friday, May 14 , 2004. There were four other movies released on the same date, including Troy, Coffee and Cigarettes and A Slipping-Down Life.