- HD 1080
- Runtime: 145m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: pt
- Country: Argentina, Brazil, United Kingdom
- Director: Héctor Babenco
- Stars: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de Almeida, Aílton Graça, Maria Luísa Mendonça
- keywords: prison, police brutality, attempted murder, carandiru massacre, sao paulo, brazil, doctor
- Production_studio: Oscar Kramer S.A., BR Petrobrás, HB Filmes, Columbia TriStar Filmes do Brasil, Sony Pictures Classics, Globo Filmes
- Slogan: Inside here nobody is guilty. Do you believe that?
- The Carandiru is featured in the top rankings of 2003
- #16 in Top Drama Movies of 2003
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 meets the future victims 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.